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Yusuf Sayman‘s work looks at the struggles of reentry into society following incarceration. I have mentioned his work once before.

This picture plays literally with notions of  ‘the road to be traveled’ and ‘obstacles to cross’, but it also depicts the loneliness of a new reality for Doris.

Doris spent 27 years in prison. Even amidst bustling streets her experience must quite solitary?

See feature at GOOD.

In “Free Again,” the photographer Yusuf Sayman chronicles the day-to-day challenges associated with the re-entry process that follows a long prison sentence. His subjects are Tarik, a man in his third week of freedom after a four-year prison sentence (which began when he was just 16), and Doris, who has just completed 27 years of incarceration. “In prison they get used to a very different set of rules and social behaviors,” says Sayman. “Doris said she never had to make decisions like what to wear. New-found freedoms as simple as shopping or taking the bus become very significant, very big deals.”