Photoville

Jeanine Oleson

Parsons The New School for Design

Archive Exhibitions Featuring Jeanine Oleson

In Relation

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2018

An exploration of relationships mediated by photography with work by current students in Parsons MFA Photography Program.

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Apparatus of Discomfort

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

“Apparatus of Discomfort” is an exploration of the photographic potential to reimagine relationships between bodies and feeling through abstraction, infrastructure, and identity.

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Photo Requests from Solitary

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

“Photo Requests from Solitary” invites men and women held in long-term solitary confinement to request a photograph of anything at all, real or imagined, and finds artists to make the images. The resulting photographs provide an archive of the hopes, memories, and interests of people who endure extreme isolation and sensory deprivation.

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Photo Requests from Solitary

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2013

What would a person in complete isolation want to see? Men in solitary confinement at Tamms supermax prison in Illinois were asked to request a photograph of anything in the world, real or imagined, and Tamms Year Ten found photographers to make the images.

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Archive Sessions and Events Featuring Jeanine Oleson

Sep 222013

Photo Requests from Solitary

The “Photo Requests from Solitary” event at Photoville brings together artists, activists, journalists, and survivors of solitary confinement. This panel discussion with accompanying slide show will introduce audiences to the reality of torture taking place in their own backyards, while exploring the power of photography to humanize one of the most marginalized group of people in our society, educate the public and the press, and spur social change on one of our most pressing domestic human rights issues.

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