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DIY, Invention and recovery in prison

The photos were made in six prisons: prisons and detention centers, in Paris and the provinces.

Everywhere inmates develop a parallel network is of tips, tricks and discoveries. Everywhere the same story comes at the option of internal rules and the willingness of supervisors.

Lack, confinement and deprivation give rise to a generation of objects specific to the prison.

materials and objects available are diverted from their original function to replace those that fail. Science and art objects diversion recovery as attempts to replicate inside the pieces out.

In contrast to the inaction of prison time, this production is in perpetual motion. The secrets circulate and pass through the former who introduce the newcomers need.

In this environment marked by widespread shortages, everything is recovered, each package boneless, husked optimized. It retrieves the peaks of kebabs, crates, packages of all kinds: canned food, cans and boxes Ricoré.

Ingenuity and invention to substitute consumption reflexes to survive and become organized acts of social protest, in response to deprivation in institutions of rule prison.

Loaded constraints faced by their authors and made from pieces of fragments, all these things are a little transposition of broken lives, shattered that populate prisons.

The breadth and diversity of human qualities implemented produce a mirror effect that allows him who sees the photograph to look the other as an individual and not only as detainee, placing the game on the field of invention and creativity.