Interview: Edmund Clark: Three Ideas of Home

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Interview: Edmund Clark: Three Ideas of Home

Guernica Magazine

24 January 2013

“When I first started showing the work to people in America and meeting curators and so on, one museum curator did actually say to me ‘if I show these I’d lose my job.’ Others said they would be interested in collecting the photographs, but could never show them. However, I think that will change over time. Right now, for a lot of Americans, anything to do with Guantanamo still equals terrorism. There’s not even a question of whether the prisoners have any legal rights or anything.”