书名：The San Quentin Project / 圣昆廷项目

作者：Nigel Poor

出版：Aperture，2021年

装帧：精装，168页

语种：英文

尺寸：21.6*28 cm

《圣昆廷项目》汇集了美国最古老、规模最大的监狱内大量鲜为人知的日常影像记录，展现了这座国家档案如何被用于视觉素养教育，并帮助囚犯处理监禁经历。2011年，艺术家、教育家暨热门播客《窃听风云》联合创始人奈杰尔·普尔通过"监狱大学项目"在圣昆廷州立监狱开设摄影史课程。由于书籍和相机均被禁止带入监狱，这门非常规课程衍生出一系列创造性影像测绘练习：学员们用"语言照片"重构无法用影像记录的回忆，并对不同摄影师的标志性作品进行注解。普尔表示，首学期结束后，"有学员告诉我他现在能在圣昆廷每个角落发现迷人之处"。当普尔获得监狱档案中数千张由昔日狱警拍摄的底片后，这些记录圣昆廷日常的影像很快成为学员们敏锐观察的起点。从平庸到残酷，再到难得的喘息时刻，档案中的图像为项目参与者提供了分享囚禁经历与思考的契机。

The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration. In 2011, Nigel Poor—artist, educator, and cocreator of the acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle—began teaching a history of photography class through the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison. Neither books nor cameras were allowed into the facility, so an unorthodox course with a range of inventivemapping exercises ensued: students crafted “verbal photographs” of memories for which they had no visual documentation, and annotated iconic images from different artists. After the first semester, Poor says, “one student told me he could now see fascination everywhere in San Quentin.” When Poor received access to thousands of negatives in the prison’s archive, made by corrections officers of a former era, these images of San Quentin’s everyday occurrences soon became launchpads for her students’ keen observations. From the banal to the brutal, to distinct moments of respite, the pictures in this archive gave those who were involved in the project the opportunity to share their stories and reflections on incarceration.