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proposal for a photo project in Furtherance of world harmony and understanding
involves continuing my two-year effort to document prison conditions in
the United States and aboard. Although I have photographed a prison in Chile,
most of my tail work is done at prisons near my home in the Bay Area. For instances, I spent nine months photographing people in the AlDS ward at the state prison in Vacaville, CA., where even healthy but HIV-positive inmates are isolated from fellow prisoners-society's most isolated members cast even further from the realm of human contact.
With the United States recently overtaking the Soviet Union and South Africa, having the country with the greatest percentage of its population behind bars (one million prisoners), the need to chronicle American jails becomes more important all the time, to continuing to do so is my goal.