IC Visual Lab
ICVL / 2023-2024
Creative Directors: Alejandro Acín, Jamie Dormer Durling & Ben GJ Thomas
In collaboration with: Bristol Photo Festival, Weston College, HMP Bristol, HMP Dartmoor and HMP Exeter
Supported by: Prison Education Weston College
A project supporting incarcerated people to develop and publish first-person stories, using photography and creative writing.
While every prison contains a library, how many of the books have been written by authors with direct experience of incarceration? What would it mean to create a library of books created by those imprisoned, speaking directly to those facing the same challenges?
The Prison Mobile Library is a collaboration between IC Visual Lab, Bristol Photo Festival and Weston College. Through a series of workshops, we are inviting imprisoned individuals across three prisons (HMP Bristol, Dartmoor & Exeter) to create new stories, using photography and creative writing. The results will be published, available from participating prison libraries, and displayed as part of the festival (details to be announced Summer 2024)
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