Sixteen and a Half - Eight Months in a Juvenile Prison
France, 2024-2025
Between 2024 and 2025, over a period of eight months, I photographed the daily lives of young detainees in one of France’s six juvenile prisons, an institution that remains among the least visible and almost never documented. I sought to understand what it means to be young and confronted with prison, not from the perspective of legal texts or institutional discourse, but by observing the trajectories, voices, and bodies of those who live this reality. Their stories are rarely told. Often relegated to silence or the margins, they reach us through a media or political lens, sometimes shaped by security-driven ideologies.
2025, Exhibition, Le Bleu du Ciel photography center, Lyon
2025, In-situ exhibition, Rhône Juvenile Detention Center
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