Posts Tagged ‘russia’
Inmate Concert Celebrates New Year
In Russia, prisoners put together a concert for the New Year that is open to inmate relatives. Dmitry Zhdanov, deputy warden says:
Every inmate here has a personality. We try our best to help them show that personality through music, theater, or in any other creative way.
Read more here.
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Prison Beauty Queens
In his 2006 photo essay, Nerv, Fabio Cuttica used photos from a beauty pageant inside of Bogota’s Buen Pastor Prison. The beauty pageant is in honor of the patron saint of prisoners, Virgin Mercedes.
Various other photographs of prison beauty pageants can be seen on a Russian website here, however it is unclear if some of these are staged or photojournalism.
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