Gallery: Pixelated Photos of Prisoners Imagine Life on the Inside
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*13/32 (Not the Man I Once Was)*. Portrait of a man 13 years into his death row sentence.
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*Four Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Forest)*. A pen pal 13 years into his death row sentence describes a childhood memory of taking refuge in the forest throughout his youth.
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*13/32 (Not the Man I Once Was)*. Portrait of a man 13 years into his death row sentence.
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*Return to Sender*. Returned from Mississippi State.
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*19/32 (Not the Man I Once Was)*. Portrait of a man 19 years into his Life without Parole (solitary) sentence.
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*Seventeen Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Cave)*. A pen pal 17 years into his death row sentence.
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*17/35 (Not the Man I Once Was)*. Portrait of a man 17 years into his death row sentence.
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*An Accumulation of Prison Correspondence.*
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*14/38 (Not the Man I Once Was)*. Portrait of a man 14 years into his death row sentence.
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*Fourteen Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Dying Wish- Ratama Tree)*. A pen pal facing his swiftly approaching execution describes his dying wish. This image was then constructed out of his description of a rare tree and made out of appropriated images.
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*Prison Food Tray acquired from Ebay*,
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*Fourteen Years out of a Life Sentence (Sky)*. A pen pal serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence in a supermax prison (solitary) described being able to see the sky through a metal grated skylight in the small concrete exercise area he was permitted in alone for one hour a day. The additional 23 hours were spent in isolation. This image was constructed out of his description of the open sky he wished to see, using appropriated images, which were then composited to account for the amount of years spent in prison.
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*15/30 (Not the Man I Once Was)*. Portrait of a man 15 years into his life sentence.
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*Postcard sent from Solitary Confinement*. "This is a place in the world where I would love to go wherever it is". Sent from a man who has been in prison since the age of 13. He has been primarily in solitary confinement since the age of 16.
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*Nineteen Years out of a Life Sentence (Sky)*.
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*Twenty-six Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Ocean*. A pen pal 26 years into his sentence in a landlocked prison, described an early childhood memory that haunted him, of walking further and further into the ocean during low tide until the sudden depth and darkness before him overcame him with fear. This image was constructed out of appropriated images and composited to account for the amount of years spent in prison.
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