The Built Environment
Opening Dec 27th 2011 – January 21 2011 Reception – Jan 8th 2012 Dark Room Gallery 12 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452 Included in the ‘The Built Environment’ Exhibition is my print from the Essex County Penitentiary series: Title: Essex County Penitentiary, New Wing Corridor. North Caldwell, New Jersey. Medium: Fine Art Digital Inkjet Paper with Archival Pigmented Inks Size: 10 inches x 15 inches Framed: $700.00 – 16 inches x 20 inches As both a historic preservation and fine-art photographer, I am drawn to the timeless nature of a historic site; it is a repository of collective memories like those etched and concealed within the interior walls of this rusting prison ruin. It was a cold December day in 2007 when I first walked through the Essex County Penitentiary. My assignment was to photograph the 32-acre jail complex as part of a required HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey) documentation before the institutional structures and outbuildings, built between 1872 and 1929, could be demolished to make way for luxury condominiums. Photographing the “New Wing Corridor” was not part of the job, but the gritty prison hallway pulled me into an evocative still life of decaying iron bars and unhinged doors that allowed the silent voices of those once incarcerated to escape.
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