| IN A WHOLE NEW WAY (31 min) US |
Director: Jonathan Fisher
Producers: George Carrano
Description:
Probation
has evolved from a way to avoid prison to a sanction actually feeding
mass incarceration. Equipped with a new form of artistic expression
that has let them see themselves in a whole new way, hundreds of
American people of color ensnared in this dominant criminal justice
sanction set out to blaze a whole new way to reform. As in so many
areas of American life, POC would pioneer an approach that many
others could benefit from. By telling their heartwarming story, this
half-hour documentary peels back the veil on the little-known
nineteenth-century justice system innovation that would eventually
spread through most of the world.
Biography:
Jonathan Fisher is the
Associate Director of the nonprofit Seeing for Ourselves, which
equips and trains marginalized Americans to take charge of their own
public narrative. He worked with George Carrano on Project
Lives: New York Public Housing Residents Photograph Their World,
which went on to garner international acclaim, multiple awards, and
prominent fans.
George Carrano had mounted an
exhibition of such photography in the NYC gallery Denise Bibro Fine
Art after encountering a similar exhibit in a London church basement.
Carrano followed up this success by mounting an exhibit of the works
of world-famous Magnum photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths at the
same venue. George founded with Jonathan Fisher the nonprofit Seeing
for Ourselves —its mission is the use of participatory photography
to empower marginalized Americans to take back their own public
narrative in the interest of social justice.
Contact Information:
w:
https://www.facebook.com/inawholenewway
e: info@seeingforourselves.org
