Previous on the topic: Buddy Bunting and Mike Simi.
Unlike Bunting and Simi, Steve Davis is not on the outside looking in. He’s behind bars with his teenage subjects, serving as teacher, friend and chronicler of their experience.
Sometimes, even Davis can’t get all the way in, and an institutionally-enforced failure to communicate is the subject.
Related: Chan Chao – portraits of women in a Peruvian prison, here. They’re not nearly as good, but they’re getting all the bounce. Reason? There’s work to do, so that the Northwest’s marginalized geography is not a marginalized destiny for its artists.
Below, Davis’ Intensive Management Unit, Green Hill, 2000 . Click to enlarge.
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