“Cruel and Unusual,” curated by Hester Keijser and Pete Brook, and presented by Noorderlicht, takes a gripping look behind prison walls through the work of eleven photographers, including Amy Elkins, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Deborah Luster, and Lizzie Sadin.
Learn MoreCurator/writer Marvin Heiferman in conversation with Pete Brook about photography’s impact in our lives, exploring how photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world.
Learn MorePete Brook talks about documentary, institutional, vernacular and legal photography and the political uses of images by media, activists and families.
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