Rodrigo Albert

The brutal life conditions inside Brazilian prisons, where tens of men cohabit few square meters’ cells under very bad health and hygiene service as well as, the random procedure of convicts’ placement managed by security authorities reveal the State’s inability to guarantee imprisonment in a nearly fair model.

The brutal life conditions inside Brazilian prisons, where tens of men cohabit few square meters’ cells under very bad health and hygiene service as well as, the random procedure of convicts’ placement managed by security authorities reveal the State’s inability to guarantee imprisonment in a nearly fair model.

Frequent visits had to happened before I realized that those images were a personal attempt to prove that some wishes and dreams are common to every man and to be more aware of how important freedom is in human life. How can one discuss the issue considering beyond the social security context also the particular concerns of the subjects involved? How can one register voices and gestures, silences and gaze? After all, what lives, what bodies, what dreams and thoughts are weaved there, where our eyes can’t reach? It was necessary to go through the invisible wall dividing some men to others?

How can one discuss the issue considering beyond the social security context also the particular concerns of the subjects involved? How can one register voices and gestures, silences and gaze? After all, what lives, what bodies, what dreams and thoughts are weaved there, where our eyes can’t reach? It was necessary to go through the invisible wall dividing some men to others?

Frequent visits had to happened before I realized that those images were a personal attempt to prove that some wishes and dreams are common to every man and to be more aware of how important freedom is in human life. How can one discuss the issue considering beyond the social security context also the particular concerns of the subjects involved? How can one register voices and gestures, silences and gaze? After all, what lives, what bodies, what dreams and thoughts are weaved there, where our eyes can’t reach? It was necessary to go through the invisible wall dividing some men to others?

Prisoners working in the construction of a prison APAC.