In Prison Air. The Cells of Holmesburg Prison Photo-books every table

every table

I recreated and sometimes reenacted

It is increasingly difficult to gain a perception of the present world that is not entirely determined by itself

and from the “orla” – the sea shore

installé dans le ventre de l’imposant barrage

In Prison Air. The Cells of Holmesburg Prison Photo-books every tableIn 1999, photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphias Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemis Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred or so cells. After Holmesburgs inception in 1896on the occasion of which one Philadelphia reporter warned,