Trevor Paglen

This project uses a series of images to make visible some of the relationships, connections, and landscapes of the California prison system visible. This series includes pictures of sites of historical confinement, including concentration camps, and segregated mining towns. It also includes photos of the people and institutions who affect the numbers of people in prison -- this includes images of politicians, banks, rural developers, and others. In addition, some images suggest reasons why images are either impossible or misleading to produce. The point is that while much of this carceral landscape can be made visible, much of it cannot.