Description: "The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration"--
Brief description: Nigel Poor (born in Boston, 1963) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based visual artist and professor of photography at California State University, Sacramento. In 2017, Poor cocreated the podcast Ear Hustle with Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, who were both incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison at the time. Her work has been featured in Aperture magazine's Spring 2018 issue, "Prison Nation," and in the New York Times.
Review Quotes: "The book...challenges perceptions, in this case, of those in prison and of why but more importantly how we imprison them." --It's Nice That