Never Ending Punishment on Display at Bocconi
, by Andrea Celauro, translated by Richard Greenslade
A series of photographs immortalize people condemned to long prison sentences at the Opera prison. Portraits in Prison is Margherita Lazzati's collection that Galleria l'Affiche in Milan brought to Bocconi as part of Bocconi Art Gallery
"I've paid my dues" is never applicable to those who are sentenced to life imprisonment. Faces of people that photographer Margherita Lazzati has photographed, along with those of others condemned to more or less lengthy sentences, appear in the project 'Portraits in prison' made behind the bars of the Milan-Opera prison. There are 25 photographs of prisoners and 5 shots of volunteers who work in the penitentiary, all taken between 2016 and 2017. The photographic exhibition, curated by the Galleria l'Affiche in Milan, will be inaugurated on 3 May at 5:30pm at Bocconi's main building in via Sarfatti 25 as part of Bocconi Art Gallery, and will remain open until 31 October.