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As of January 1, 2014, France had 67,065 inmates in 191 prisons for a capacity of just over 57,000 beds. In 2013, the average length of detention was 11.5 months. How to photograph prison? How to reproduce in image the confinement, the constraint, the separation, the arbitrariness? Beyond the bars, the cramped and dark cells, the endless corridors, the austere courtyards, the reality of prison is a sensation: smells, permanent noise, monotony, boredom, violence… Prison breeds fantasy. Sometimes reality is more mundane than we imagine. The horror of incarceration is played on tiny little things, turning everyday life into a nightmare: the closed doors of cells all the time, loneliness, the fear of the walk where everything can happen, the time spent doing nothing, days, weeks, empty months. It is this reality of confinement that Grégoire Korganow photographs, far from clichés and shocking images. He wants to grasp the unspeakable, the time that stops, the life that shrinks, that disappears.

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