Aug 21

Aug 21 Opening: Slavery - the Prison Industrial Complex, Saturday September 22

WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have been photographing prison life and labor practices for more than thirty years. The Louisiana State Penitentiary was once a plantation and is known as "Angola," the country of origin for many of the slaves; alternatively monikered "The Farm" due to its continued output of cash crops. The complex is bigger than the island of Manhattan and operates as the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

In the minds of Calhoun and McCormick, slavery never really ended at Angola.