Video: Sailboats and swans: portraits of prisoners in Russian and Ukrainian prisons by Michal Chelbin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No matter how much they talk about tolerance, it is almost impossible to change the wary attitude towards prisoners in society. Israeli photographer Michal chelbin presented a whole gallery of portraits of people serving sentences in prison. She visited seven correctional institutions in Russia and Ukraine; various offenders were caught in the lens of her camera: from thieves to those who committed an assault with the purpose of murder. The series has received an unexpected name "Sailboats and swans".
Why sailboats and swans? Apparently, Michal Chelbin was impressed by the traditional photo wallpaper that adorns the walls of the correctional facilities. For six years she worked on this project, under each photo she posted information indicating the name of the prisoner, the crime committed, the place of detention. The author invites the viewer to independently correlate the person in the photo with the atrocity he committed.
Michal Chelbin has set many accents in this photo project. Someone will be carried away by floral patterns on the wallpaper, which, perhaps, remind these cruel criminals of the house. Someone will be carried away by the portraits of the prisoners themselves, who do not look embittered, but human, because who knows what prompted each of them to cross the line of the law.
The life of prisoners has repeatedly become the subject of reflection in the works of photographers. The “Sailboats and Swans” project is a great opportunity to be alone with these people, to see them tete-a-tete. In other series of photographs published on the Kulturologiya. Ru website, we have already seen the prisoners' cells and even their last supper.
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