In Prison Air. The Cells of Holmesburg Prison Photo-books installé dans le ventre de

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I recreated and sometimes reenacted

nobody even knew I was there

every table

The photographer here describes

In Prison Air. The Cells of Holmesburg Prison Photo-books installé dans le ventre deIn 1999, photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphias Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemis Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred or so cells. After Holmesburgs inception in 1896on the occasion of which one Philadelphia reporter warned,