Photographing Abandoned Prisons











Shooting in an abandoned prison is a bit different than the usual abandoned building. The greatest obstacle are small cells and bars. All these vertical shapes and narrow alleys make it hard to get a distant perspective. Sometimes, the perspective through the bars is more startling or the bad conditions in which a bed or a scribbled wall were positioned. Take advantage of the claustrophobia to enhance how hard it was to live in such small spaces, how forgotten and yet exposed they were.

In the case of the picture in the center with the Hitler writing of a white supremacist, the bars cast a cross shape on the writing and somehow obscured their meaning; good seems to always win out over evil, hmm?

**Tomorrow around 1 pm EST, I am starting my new Friday series "Sex and the Single Ghost Hunter." Don't miss it**.