Arnold Genthe, Slave Prison (Calabozo), New Orleans, circa 1920-1926
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Recent Posts
- Buy Art and Free Jailed Mamas on Mother’s Day
- ‘The Depository Of Unwanted Photographs’ on show at ArtYard, Frenchtown, New Jersey
- A Playlist for Mental Health Awareness
- A Talk in San Francisco about Teaching and Relationships at San Quentin Prison
- ‘Beyond Addiction’ Photography Exhibition “Reframes” Recovery from Drug Abuse
- A Howard Chapnick Award and 28 Collaborators
- Separated by Imprisonment, Siblings’ Self-Pub Photobook Reflects on Art, Freedom and Justice
- The LGBTQ Voices Propelling Prison Abolition: In Conversation with Lorenzo Triburgo
PETE BROOK ON MEDIUM
- Buy Art and Free Incarcerated Mamas on Mother’s Day
- ‘The Depository Of Unwanted Photographs’ gets a second look
- Unpacking the Media’s Obsession With Prisoner-Firefighters
- Taking On the Stigma of Mental Health Issues, One Playlist at a Time
- A Talk about Relationships and Teaching at San Quentin State Prison
- Photography Exhibition “Reframes” Recovery from Drug Abuse
- An Interview with Jeff Adachi
- These Photos of Prepper Bags Hold a Mirror to Society
- Figureless Portraits that Speak to the Invisible Struggles of LGBTQ Prisoners
- After Decades in Prison, Women Pose for Portraits in their Bedrooms
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Jailhouse Lawyers Manual
Photographers of Prisons
- Alan Pogue
- Alyse Emdur
- Andrea Wise
- Andrew Burton
- Andrew Lichtenstein
- Angela Shoemaker
- Anna Shteynshleyger
- Ara Oshagan
- Araminta de Clermont
- Ashley Stinson
- Beb C. Reynol
- Ben Graville
- Bettina von Kameke
- Brenda Ann Kenneally
- Britney Anne Majure
- Bruce Jackson
- Bryan Shih
- Carl de Keyzer
- Carolyn Van Houten
- Casey Orr
- Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun
- Charlyn Zlotnik
- Cheryl Hanna Truscott
- Christiane Feser
- Damon Winter
- Danilo Murru
- Danny Lyon
- Darcy Padilla
- David Leventi
- David Moore
- David Simonton
- Deborah Luster
- Donald Weber
- Donna DeCesare
- Dustin Franz
- Edmund Clark
- Elyse Butler
- Emiliano Granado
- Erika Schultz
- Eros Hoagland
- Fernando Moleres
- Francesco Cocco
- Frank McMains
- Gaylord Herron
- Guillaume Pinon
- Hector Mediavilla
- Herman Krieger
- Ilka Hartmann
- Isadora Kosofsky
- Jack Lueders-Booth
- Jackie Dewe Mathews
- Jérôme Brunet
- Jeff Barnett-Winsby
- Jehad Nga
- Jenn Ackerman
- Jenny Wicks
- Joan Fontcuberta
- João Pina
- Jon Lowenstein
- Jordana Hall
- Jordis Antonia Schlösser
- Joseph Rodriguez
- Julia Rendleman
- Julie Adnan
- Julie Remy
- Jurgen Chill
- Ken Light
- Kevin Miyazaki
- Kirk Crippens
- Klavdij Sluban
- Kristen S. Wilkins
- Laure Geerts
- Leah Tepper Byrne
- Least Wanted
- Lee Grant
- Lee Saloutos
- Lieven Nollet
- Lizzie Sadin
- Lloyd DeGrane
- Lori Waselchuk
- Louie Palu
- Luigi Gariglio
- Lynsey Addario
- Mae Ryan
- Maja Daniels
- Marc Vallee
- Marco Baroncini
- Marilyn Suriani
- Mark Murrmann
- Mark Strandquist
- Masumi Hayashi
- Mathieu Pernot
- Max Whittaker
- Melania Comoretto
- Michal Chelbin
- Mikhael Subotzky
- Mohamed Bourouissa
- Nathalie Mohadjer
- Nico Bick
- Patricia Aridjis
- Paul Kwilecki
- Pedro Lobo
- Philippe Bazin
- Richard Ross
- Robert Gumpert
- Sara Bennett
- Sarah Bones
- Sarah Hoskins
- Sasha Maslov
- Sebastien Van Malleghem
- Serge J-F. Levy
- Stephen Tourlentes
- Steve Davis
- Steve Liss
- Susan Madden Lankford
- Sye Williams
- Taro Yamasaki
- Theo Stroomer
- Tim Matsui
- Toby Binder
- Tomer Ifrah
- Trevor Paglen
- Valentina Quintano
- Vance Jacobs
- Yana Payusova
- Yusuf Sayman
Photography Blogs
- 1000Words (Tim Clark)
- 40 Watt (Shawn Records)
- 40×50 Editions (Jeff Ladd)
- A Photo Student (James Pomerantz)
- After Photography (Fred Rictchin)
- American Suburb X (Doug Rickard)
- Amy Stein
- Asian Photography Blog (Yaohong)
- B (Blake Andrews)
- BagNewsNotes (Michael Shaw)
- Bill Eppridge
- British Photographic History
- Buffet (Andrew Phelps)
- Carlagirl photo (Carla Williams)
- Claxton Projects
- Colin Pantall
- Conscientious (Joerg Colberg)
- Consumptive (James Luckett)
- Contact (Anna Stevens & Emily Graham)
- David Campbell
- David Dare Parker
- Dektol (Danny Lyon)
- Digressions (Daniel Shea)
- Dodge & Burn (Qiana Mestrich)
- Drool (Tony Fouhse)
- Duckrabbit (Ben Chesterton, David White & Ciara Leeming)
- Dvafoto (M. Scott Brauer & Matt Lutton)
- En Foco (Miriam Romais)
- Exposure Compensation (Miguel Garcia-Guzman)
- Exposure Project
- Eyecurious (Marc Feustel)
- Food For Your Eyes (Nathalie Belayche)
- For the Right to Look (Nicholas Mirzoeff)
- Fugitive Vision (Evan Mirapaul)
- Hamburger Eyes (Ray Potes & friends)
- Harvey Benge
- Humble Arts Blog (Grant Willing)
- Ian Aleksander Adams
- Iconic Photos
- ILOVETHATPHOTO (Saskia Hoogerhuis)
- It's Never Summer (Wayne Bremser)
- John Edwin Mason
- L O Z (Laurence Vecten)
- Lens Culture (Jim Casper)
- Lenscratch (Aline Smithson)
- Manchester Photography (Mark Page)
- Melanie McWhorter
- MPD (Mark Peter Drolet)
- Mrs. Deane (Norman Beierle & Hester Keijser)
- Muse-ings (Tim Atherton)
- New Photographics (Jonathan Worth)
- No Caption Needed (Robert Hariman & John Louis Lucaites)
- On Shadow (Nicholas Calcott)
- One Way Street (Bernard Yenelouis)
- Photographers on Photography (Alison McCreery)
- Photographers Speak (Dean Brierly)
- Photographs Do Not Bend (Sherry Cuttler)
- Photographylot (Tom White)
- PhotoPhilanthropy (Eliza Gregory)
- Politics, Theory, Photography
- Raw Take (Mike Davis)
- Re: PHOTO (Peter Marshall)
- Reciprocity Failure (Stan Banos)
- Scarlett Lion (Glenna Gordon)
- Shane Lavalette
- Shpilman Institute for Photography
- Simon Sticker
- Slightly Lucid (Aislinn Leggett)
- Super Massive Black Hole
- The Incoherent Light (Darren Campion)
- The Spinning Head (Asim Rafiqui)
- The Visual Student (Kevin Martin)
- The Year in Pictures (James Danziger)
- Third Nature (Dalton Rooney)
- This is the What
- ThisPhotoThat (This, Photo and That)
- Too Much Chocolate (Jake Stangel & friends)
- Truth in Photography (Robert Semeniuk)
- Two Way Lens (Michael Werner)
- Verve Photo (Geoffrey Hiller)
- Visual Culture Blog (Marcus Bohr)
- Walk Your Camera (Roger May)
- We Can Shoot Too (J. Wesley Brown)
- We're Just Sayin (Iris & David Burnett)
- What's Going On? (Dawoud Bey)
- What’s The Jackanory? (Andrew Hetherington)
- Written By Light (Andrew Jackson)
- Zoe Strauss
Prison Art, Film, Literature, Multimedia & Theatre
- 360 Degrees
- A Hard Straight
- Angola Prison Football
- Carandiru
- Close Tallulah
- Corrections Documentary Project
- Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
- Girls On The Wall
- Guantanamo Public Memory Project
- Imagined Prisons
- Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
- Nigel Poor
- Oakdale Prison Community Choir, Iowa
- On The Count Radio Show
- Open Hearts Open Minds
- Pat Graney Dance – Keeping the Faith
- Prison Arts Coalition
- Prison Bridges Project
- Prison Creative Arts Project
- Prison Creative Arts Project, Michigan
- Prison in Cinema
- Prison Performing Arts, Missouri
- Prison Radio Association (UK)
- Prison Time, Journalism series
- Prison Town
- Prisoners of Katrina – BBC
- Scared Straight
- Selling of a Serial Killer
- Shakespeare Behind Bars
- Sheila Pinkel
- Standard Operating Procedure
- The Corrections Documentary Project
- The Cost of Punishment
- The Fear Factory
- Thousand Kites
- Visions of Abolition
- Witness to an Execution
Prison Blogs
- Business of Detention
- Change.org: Criminal Justice
- Current State of Affairs
- Evolving Standards Of Decency
- GenPop
- Grits for Breakfast
- Innocence Project Blog
- Jailhouse Lawyer
- Juvenile Justice blog
- Life Sentences
- Prison Law Blog
- Prison Librarian
- Prison Movement
- Prison News Blog
- Prisoners All
- Prisoners Family Voices
- Real Cost of Prisons
- Right On Crime
- Sentence Speak
- Sentencing Law and Policy
- Solitary Watch
- StandDown Texas Project
- Supreme Court of US Blog
- Talk Left
- Texas Prison Bid'ness
- Think Outside the Cage
- Una Ragazza Americana
Prison Reform
- ACLU National Prison Project
- Books Not Bars
- Books To Prisoners
- Books to Prisoners – Bellingham
- California Corrections Crisis
- Center for Community Alternatives
- Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice
- Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
- Correctional Association of New York
- Critical Resistance
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Fair Sentencing for Youth
- Families to Amend Californias Three Strikes
- Family Life Behind Bars
- Fortune Society
- Friends & Families of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
- Friends Committee on Legislation of California
- Getting Out, Staying Out
- Howard League for Penal Reform (UK)
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Just Detention
- Justice Atlas
- Justice In Prisons
- Justice Not Jails
- Justice Project
- Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
- Louisiana Capital Assistance Center
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
- PEN Prison Writing Program
- Penal Reform International
- Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project
- Prison Activist Resource Center
- Prison Design Boycott
- Prison Law Office
- Prison Legal News
- Prison Policy Initiative
- Prison Reform Trust (UK)
- Reprieve
- Sentencing Project
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Women Behind Bars Project
- Women's Prison Association
- Young in Prison
Prisoner Education
- Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
- Bard Prison Initiative
- Bedford Hills College Program
- Boston University Prison Education Program
- Center for Prison Education, Wesleyan
- Center for Prison Outreach and Education, NJ
- Changing Lives Through Literature
- Cornell Prison Education Program
- Education Justice Project
- Friday Center for Continuing Education
- Gateways for Incarcerated Youth, WA
- Hudson Link
- Inside-Out Center
- Liberal Arts in Prison, Iowa
- Partakers: College Behind Bars
- Prison Entrepreneurship Program
- Prison Outreach, Georgetown University
- Prison Studies Project, Harvard
- Prison University Project
- Prisoner Reentry Institute
- Project for Inmate Education, UC Santa Cruz
- Rend Lake College at Pinckneyville Correctional Center
- St. Louis University College-in-Prison Program
- The Fortune Society, NY
- The Prison Teaching Initiative, Princeton
- University Beyond Bars
Recommended
- BleakHouse Publishing
- Boaz & Ruth
- Carefully Aimed Darts
- Cathartic Aggression
- Center for Land Use Interpretation
- Courthouse Confessions
- Culture Hall
- Democracy Now!
- Jamblichus
- Just Seeds
- McSweeney's
- Pulse Media
- re_map
- Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy
- Sociological Images
- Subtopia
- The Rights Exposure Project
- Walden House
- World of Words
Social Justice
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