Edmund Clark’s immersive study of prison life goes on show at the Ikon Gallery

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Edmund Clark’s immersive study of prison life goes on show at the Ikon Gallery

British Journal of Photography

- 01.12.2017.

““I hate myself because I am a murderer… You can’t save me… We are a faceless, forgotten part of society…” These are just some of the intimate, often devastating thoughts of the inmates at HMP Grendon, a category B men’s facility in Buckinghamshire and Europe’s only “wholly therapeutic” prison. Their words accompany My Shadow’s Reflection, a series informed by Edmund Clark’s artist-in-residence at Grendon, which forms part of his larger body of work, In Place of Hate, on show at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham from 06 December.”