This isn’t your typical prison photography. But it isn’t supposed to be.
Instead of photos of prisons with chain-link fences and barbed wire, photographer Mark Strandquist produces images that give those locked up on the inside a view of the world outside. As part of his Windows from Prison workshop, Strandquist asks incarcerated individuals a simple question: “If you could have a window in your cell, what place from your past would it look out to?”
Then he and workshop participants set out to deliver the results.
On a wintry February day, about five dozen people gathered for the Virginia-based photographer’s first New York City installment of the project. Most of the workshop participants at the New School in Manhattan were strangers, having met only moments before. Excitement and anticipation filled the room as individuals split into smaller groups and each group received a manila envelope containing a letter.
[For more of this story, written by Brooke L. Williams, go to http://jjie.org/windows-from-p...ions-of-home/116389/]
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