"Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out" by Edmund Clark Prison Reform Trust « Provokateur Blog Provokateur have designed a website that accompanies the publication of Edmund Clark’s new book of the same name and coincides with The European Month of Photography, where Edmund is exhibiting a selection of the works. Read more... This week you might have seen a lot of coverage in the national press about the number of young kids being locked up. The reason why you’re seeing this is because of a campaign Provokateur helped the Prison Reform Trust launch. Working closely with PRT, Provokateur created the name, branding and communications for the campaign. Crowded Hong Kong Apartments Photographed From Above German photographer Michael Wolf showed us outside views of Hong Kong’s crowded residential apartments. Now Hong Kong based advocacy organization - Society for Community Organization – shows us how the insides look. This set of pictures depict the deplorable living conditions of one of the most densely populated cities on earth, from the only vantage point that captures the entire room. According to the SoCO, over 100,000 people are unable to afford adequate homes. Among them are elderly individuals and other socially vulnerable groups who have no choice but to live in these tiny 40-square-foot rooms. While the city seems prosperous, many people still live in unacceptable conditions. “By taking these photos of inadequate housing we want to arouse public and government concern over the issue”, says Ho Hei-Wah, Director of SoCO. “Hong Kong is regarded as one of the richest cities in the world; however, lurking beneath this prosperity is also extreme poverty. Sources: Petapixel, qz.com
Sketching Prison Cells as an Act of Resistance The image above was drawn by Katherine Fontaine, a San Francisco based architect, prison-questioner, friend to all, and book-art-space-collective co-runner. “There are very few pictures of SHUs. The last drawing that was found at the Freedom Archives in San Francisco was from when Reagan was the Governor of California,” says Fontaine. With solitary confinement, such a hot news topic, Fontaine was compelled to sketch when she realised there were very few images of solitary cells in circulation. “I was given the few photos that exist from other similar prisons and a diagram that was used in a previous court case drawn by a prisoner while in an SHU at Pelican Bay. Fontaine’s commitment to make reliable sketches of prison spaces and apparatus was spurred by a chance encounter with some fellow professionals in an unlikely place. Fontaine noticed a person within the crowd with a sign that read ‘Architects Against Overcrowding In Prisons.’ ADPSR state: “People need to see them,” she says.
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