Prison Photography: 'Still Life: Killing Time'
22nd June 2010
Edmund Clark’s Still Life: Killing Time captures in photographs the "slowness, the fabric and the accoutrements of prison life for elderly inmates."
Pete Brook describes how Clark chose to engage with Britain’s aging prison population "in direct response to demographic disasters in American penal policy."
He states that Clark’s unambiguous images of mobile aids and instructions for the senile are "a clear call for change", with the 43 images combining into "a convincing argument that we should all care about how our prison system accommodates different demographics."
Read more:
- Review of Still Life: Killing Time by Edmund Clark
- Erwin James commentary on audio slideshow from Still Life: Killing Time
- Prison Photography blog: "Analysing the Practice of Photography in Sites of Incarceration"
- Interview with Pete Brook of Prison Photography
