Pinhole Photography by Incarcerated Girls at Remann Hall, Washington State

Pete Brook on his blog  prisonphotography.wordpress.com recently interviewed  Steve Davis about his photography project of pinhole images by the girls at Remann Hall. 

“When working with the incarcerated youth of Washington State, Steve Davis used the camera in different ways and to different ends. He conducted his own long-term portrait project concurrently with workshops offered to the detained youth.

At Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center, Tacoma, Steve and his female students were not allowed to photograph each others faces.

Steve’s solution was portraits of the girls with plaster masks, heads in their hands and similar visual devices. The girls’ solutions involved outstretched hands, evasive gesture, long exposures, and full utility of pinhole photography’s conveniently blurred results.”

To read the entire blog entry by Pete Brook and see additional images from this project, visit his blog at prisonphotography.wordpress.com.