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Encerrados, Santiago, Chile, Penitentiary. March 2008, guard beats a convict just entered in prison.<br />
recreate their space is the only way to<br />
defend them.<br />
They hardly try to maintain their habits in<br />
a human boundary condition and overcrowding<br />
status. Violence and power<br />
management inside the jails are direct<br />
consequences of these conditions.<br />
Thus, for instance, in Brazil even if I got<br />
the permission for taking pictures inside<br />
the jails, the jail director had to seek the<br />
approval of a »control« group who ran<br />
the prison.<br />
Some prisoners were used to show defiantly<br />
their knives and who is not armed<br />
becomes a kind of slave.<br />
Dokumentar- und Reportage-Fotografie WELTWEIT<br />
In Santiago, in Chile, the convicts, irritated<br />
by such bad life conditions are<br />
used to fight during their autonomy hour.<br />
The jails rules are the same of that we can<br />
find in life: who has more money and<br />
power, supervises and has authority.<br />
The life in jails is not only power games<br />
and fights. In daily life there is time for<br />
playing football, for talking, for joking<br />
and for women there are moments<br />
in which they dress up and make-up<br />
faces.<br />
The history of this work is not to<br />
denounce the situation in jails but to<br />
discover and tell what joins and what<br />
I went around for 74 male and female<br />
jails in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina,<br />
Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia e Venezuela.<br />
I got in contact with prisoners and<br />
guards, with fear and anger, with hope<br />
and diffidence. Some convicts considered<br />
me a distraction, others looked at<br />
me with envy, others again with contempt<br />
because they thought that I was<br />
there only for taking pictures to sell of<br />
their confined life.<br />
Every jail was a way to tell the country<br />
from inside and outside. Even if everything<br />
seems to be just a reflex of violence<br />
the contrast of life and violence belongs<br />
to one line. This corresponds to the history<br />
of South America.<br />
Valerio Bispuri<br />
Valerio Bispuri, 40 years old, was born<br />
in Rome. He has an art and letter graduate.<br />
He is living in Buenos Aires and in<br />
Rome. Professional photoreporter since<br />
2001, he is collaborating with many Italian<br />
and foreign magazines. He made a<br />
lot of reportages in Latin America, Africa<br />
and Middle East. He exhibited in many<br />
places in Italy, Spain and Argentina.<br />
Since many years he is working on different<br />
aspects of life in South America<br />
In 2011 he received a special mention<br />
at the POYi Latin America.<br />
In 2011 he exhibited at Visa pour<br />
l‘Image in Perpignan an exhibition of a<br />
work of ten years on prison sudmaericane:<br />
Encerrados, Travel of South American<br />
jails<br />
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