Installation view at Bolivar Art Gallery, Lexington, KY 2018
3,029 women and 3,433 men, Valley State Prison and Central California Women’s Facility, Chowchilla, California
Installation view at Bolivar Art Gallery, Lexington, KY 2018
“Weak, False and Filled with Holes” (2018), written with Elizabeth Webb, 1 of 3 takeaway newspapers produced alongside the exhibition, this one discussing Charlottesville, Virginia and the resistance to desegregation after Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Building upon the eighteen years of Hunt’s Correction Documentary Project, “Degrees of Visibility” is a large body of landscape studies that look upon the spaces that surround prisons, jails and detention centers throughout all 50 U.S. states and territories. Each is shot from a publicly accessible point of view how those spaces show and conceal punishment and the growing scale of mass incarceration. Sitting at the limits of what a photograph can describe, each image is shot from a publicly available point of view and titled according to the number of people who are imprisoned but concealed within that landscape. The images focus less upon what each prison looks like or the visual state of its prisoners, and more upon how they are hidden, sitting among different forms of land use, geographies, and the histories of control and rebellion they hold — wondering if there is a politics of visibility that makes mass incarceration possible.
Installation view at Pitzer College Art Galleries, 2019
Installation view at Pitzer College Art Galleries, 2019
Installation view at Pitzer College Art Galleries, 2019
Installation view at Bolivar Art Gallery, 2018
Installation view at Foto Forum Santa Fe, 2018
Installation view at Foto Forum Santa Fe, 2018
“All I can tell you is that our capacity is for 108 men and women and it currently holds more than that,” Roanoke County Jail, Salem, Virginia, installed at WonderRoot Community Art Center, Atlanta, 2016
12,402 men and women, 53% Black, 36% Hispanic, and 11% White and other, Cook County Jail, Chicago, Illinois
“This facility holds about 4,000 people … it’s considered a ‘mega-jail,’ the fifth largest in the nation, Alameda Santa Rita County Jail, Dublin, California
683 women and men, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago, Illinois, installation view at Bolivar Art Gallery, Lexington, KY, 2018
Public events at WonderRoot Community Art Center, Atlanta, 2016
“Shut down Stewart Detention Center” t-shirt from Detention Watch, Atlanta, next to “116 men, including 48 designated for “indefi- nite detainment,” Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,” at WonderRoot Community Art Center, Atlanta, 2016
Public events at Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics with Center for Political Education, 2017
Workshop at WonderRoot Community Art Center, Atlanta, 2016
Workshop at WonderRoot Community Art Center, Atlanta, 2016
Advocate Tanya Roybal speaks during public event at Foto Forum Santa Fe, 2018
Installation view at Foto Forum Santa Fe, 2018
Projected version at Highways Performance Space,
Projection at Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, as part of “Inside Outside,” organized by Suchi Branfman, with Critical Resistance, Youth Justice Coalition, California Coalition for Women Prisoners and All of Us or None.
