The Weight of Life
Urban Interventions by Tony Spyra




All images © Tony Spyra.
Urban Interventions by Tony Spyra
All images © Tony Spyra.
Alyse Endur’s book Prison Landscapes is a compilation of prison inmates presenting themselves in front of visiting room backdrops. »Such backdrops, often painted by talented inmates, are used within the prisons as portrait studios. As inmates and their visitors pose for photos in front of these idealized landscapes they pretend, for a brief moment, that they are someplace else. The photographs are given to these visitors as gifts to take home and remember the faces of their loved ones while they are incarcerated«, she writes.
Rush Hour by Fernando Livschitz.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor as evident as in these pictures can go without any further explanations. But keep in mind that these photos have not only been taken in so called third-world or threshold countries. El Contraste Entre La Pobreza Y La Riqueza En El Mundo