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Update #31: Some thoughts on, and thanks to, Noorderlicht Photo Gallery
I’d wanted to take the opportunity to publicly share some thoughts on the Noorderlicht team and my wonderful experience working in Holland. Ive posted a missive.
Some thoughts on, and thanks to, Noorderlicht Photo Gallery is part debrief, part abridged journal entries.
Co-curator, Hester Keijser and I were treated like family. That’s not an exaggeration. Ton Broekhuis, Noorderlicht Foundation Director wrote to me these words, following my return to the U.S. and they pretty much sum up my experience.
“Pete, you mentioned ‘being welcomed into the Noorderlicht family’. You did not mention leaving the Noorderlicht family, which is reasonable. Everyone who joins the family by free will makes – at the same time – a promise to come back. Family is family. It is forever.”
Update #30: GUSTY WINDS MAY EXIST
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Posted on March 5
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Update #29: 'Cruel and Unusual' Newspaper and PPOTR Acknowledgements
A big hello from my darkened hole in Chorley where I've been ferreting away putting the final touches on the Cruel and Unusual exhibit.
Instead of a traditional exhibition book catalogue, Hester Keijser (co-curator) and I decided to publish a newspaper. I explain the reasons in a blog post I penned today, Why We Made a Newspaper Instead of a Traditional Exhibition Catalogue.
The contents include an overview of the 11 main photographers; quotes and interviews from PPOTR; the diaries of photographer who photographed at Angola Prison; photo-essays; a QR-code homage to our fave photoblogs; and even an edit of my own photographs!
The main reason you'll want to pick up a copy though will be to see your own name in ink. The PPOTR acknowledgements includes 250+ names.
I will get copies to you all in the coming months.
Update #28: A CAT NAMED SUPERVIOLENT, A HORSE THAT WEIGHS A TONNE AND A THREE LEGGED DOG
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Posted on January 28
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Update #27: “Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”
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Posted on January 21
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POSTCARD FROM THE ROAD, sourced from one of the many prison museums in the U.S. Listed as an official supporter of the project on website and in book acknowledgements.
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MIXTAPE (CD) of the tracks that keep me sane over the 8,000 miles. PLUS, postcard and listed as an official supporter of the project on website and in book acknowledgements. Plus, postcard from the road.
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JAN STURMANN signed color print. 'Juvenile Prison Sweat Lodge' (2005). 8.5"x11". PLUS postcard, mixtape and listed as an official supporter of the project on website and in book acknowledgements.
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ORIGINAL PIECE OF PRISON ARTWORK (8.5" x 11"), in pencil or paint. PLUS mixtape, postcard and lsted as an official supporter of the project on website and in book acknowledgements.
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FRANK MCMAINS signed B/W print. 'Boxer, Angola Prison' (2010). 8"x12". Digital print. PLUS, postcard and mixtape.
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SELF-PUBLISHED PHOTOBOOK, 'Prison Photography in the Era of Mass Incarceration' (56 pages). Featuring 20 images and accompanying text by photographer-interviewees. Foreword by Pete Brook. Limited edition run of 150. PLUS postcard and mixtape. Listed as an official supporter of the project on website and in book acknowledgements.
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VICTOR BLUE signed print. 'Closing a Wound, Mara 18' (2005). 11"x14". Archival print. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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MAX WHITTAKER signed print. Any image from Whittaker's archive, printed at 11"x17". PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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STEVE DAVIS signed print. Choose one of four prints from his 'Captured Youth' series. 8"x10" color print on 10"x12" heavyweight archival paper. Special edition of 4. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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LORI WASELCHUK signed B&W print. 'Lloyd Bone Drives the Funeral Hearse' (2007). 7" X 14". Archival pigment print. #7 of an edition of 25. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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ADAM SHEMPER signed print. B&W on archival paper. 'In the Wheat Fields, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana' (2000). 9"x9". PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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LORI WASELCHUK signed B&W print. 'Prison Guard Watches from the Levee, Angola' (2007). 12" X 24". Archival pigment print. #2 of an edition of 15. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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ARA OSHAGAN signed Color and B&W print. 'Liz, 21 years old, Chowchilla State Prison, CA' (2003). 40"x10". Archival pigment ink print (Giclee). Edition #2 of 10. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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SEAN KERNAN signed print. ‘Prayer’ (1979). B/W, 8″x12″, inkjet, print. Signed. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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STEPHEN TOURLENTES signed Artist's Proof. 'Comstock, NY State Prison' (2009). 11"x14" B&W, Archival Pigment Print. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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TIM GRUBER signed print. 'Sunset Behind Bars' (2008). 14x11" Color, archival pigment print on matte paper. Edition #1 of an edition of 25. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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JENN ACKERMAN signed print. 'A Hand to Hold' (2008) from the series, Trapped. 11"x14" B&W, archival matte. Edition #2 of an edition of 25. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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JAMEL SHABAZZ signed print. ‘Female Blood’ (1995). 8″x10″ resin coated black and white print. PLUS a postcard, mixtape (CD) and a self-published book.
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ADAM AMENGUAL signed color print. 'Adrien Caceres' (2011) from the "Homies" series. 11"x14". Archival inkjet print. #2 of an edition of 10. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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BRENDA ANN KENNEALLY signed print (details to follow). PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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BRUCE JACKSON signed B&W print. 'Dominoes. Death Row, Texas.' (1979) 12.5"x17" on 13"x19" on Ilford Gallerie Gold Fibre Silk Paper. #3 of an edition of 20. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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SYE WILLIAMS signed color C-Print. 'The Four' (2001). 11"x14". #2 of an edition of 25. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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JON LOWENSTEIN signed print. 'Undocumented Mexican Immigrants - Tent City' (2009). 11"x 14" color print, on Hannemuehle archival paper. Print, PLUS, postcard, mixtape and self-published book.
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MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY unsigned, framed print. 'Maplank in the Workshop, Pollsmoor Prison' (2005). B&W, silver gelatin print on fiber paper. 35x50cm (frame approx. 50x65cm). Edition: 1/9. PLUS, self published book, postcard and mixtape.
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RICHARD ROSS signed color print. '12 year old Harrison County' (2009). 9"x12" Epson digital print on enhanced matt. PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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DANNY LYON signed print. ‘Ramsey Prison Cell Block, Texas Prison, 1968′ (Negative made 1968, printed by Kelton, for the photographer, in 1995.) B/W, 11"x14" modern-print, signed (verso). PLUS, self-published book, postcard and mixtape.
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Since 2008, Pete Brook has written 'Prison Photography' analysing the visual culture of prisons and issues of social justice as they relate to photography and photojournalism. In 2011, 'Prison Photography' won a LIFE.com Best Photoblog Award by and listed by The British Journal of Photography among it's Ten Recommended Photoblogs. He is lead blogger for Raw File, Wired.com’s photography blog.
