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| Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia |
| By .wired.com - Pete Brook |
| Published: 04/05/2013 |
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High above the Arizona desert in 2010, after a day of photographing housing developments, Christoph Gielen looked down from the helicopter upon Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The hexagonal arrangement of the prison site, to him, replicated the six-sided concentric order of suburbs he’d shot previously. That chance observation kickstarted a three-year project called American Prison Perspectives, in which Gielen examines the architecture of Supermax prisons via aerial photos. “I am intentionally turning surveillance technology back on the surveillance apparatus of the prison itself — in a sense democratizing the use of surveillance,” says Gielen. The birth of the Supermax — a prison complex fully or partially designed solely for single-cell solitary confinement — came about in the ’80s. The first was the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), opened in 1983 by the federal authorities in Florence, Colorado. It is known presently as the prison that holds high-profile terrorism suspects. Pelican Bay State Prison, put into operation by the California Department of Corrections in 1989, was the first state-run Supermax. Today, 30 states have one or more Supermax prisons. In addition to purpose-built complexes, existing prisons may have added designated solitary wings. Read More. |
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