Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick:
Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex

October 25, 2014 – January 25, 2015

A selection of images from Calhoun and McCormick’s extensive body of work on Angola Prison will be exhibited as part of Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Focusing on the lives of Angola’s incarcerated men and the impact the prison system has on their families, these images document the quotidian reality of our institutions of crime and punishment. The images of the art fairs, rodeos, and family visits, all within the prison walls, offer not voyeuristic manipulations but rather attempt to restore humanity to a population often marginalized from the national conversation. This body of work, which began in the early 1980s and continues today, serves as historical record and chronicle of African-American daily life within the prison system in Louisiana.