The Gallery Weston

5 St Margaret's Terrace Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AH

16 Oct to
17 Nov 2024

Thu-Sun
11am to 5pm

In 2011, artist Nigel Poor started volunteering at San Quentin State Prison teaching a history of photography class through the Prison University Project. This led to a long-term collaboration, working with a group of men to explore and respond to San Quentin’s prison archive. Through her images and accompanying stories, viewers are led on a journey that unpacks both the long history of San Quentin Prison, as well as the challenges of representation in relation to incarcerated communities. 

Alongside this exhibition, Bristol Photo Festival has been developing a long-term collaborative project in prisons across the region. Some of the outcomes of this project will be on display as part of the exhibition. 

About Nigel Poor 

Nigel Poor is an artist living and working in the Bay Area, California. For many years her work has explored the various ways people make a mark and leave behind evidence of their existence. Her work has been shown at many institutions including, The San Jose Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Friends of Photography, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. Since 2011 she has been working on creative projects with incarcerated collaborators at San Quentin Prison, including the internationally-acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle (now downloaded over 75 million times). Poor is also a Professor of Photography at California State University.

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