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Debi Cornwall - Welcome to Camp America
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Welcome to Camp America is Brooklyn-based conceptual documentary artist and former civil rights attorney Debi Cornwall's vivid and disorienting glimpse into the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba-known as "Gitmo"-through photographs, once-classified government documents and first-person accounts.
The book gathers three series: Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play showing residential and leisure spaces of both prisoners and guards; Gitmo on Sale, depicting the commodification of American military power through gift-shop souvenirs; and Beyond Gitmo, investigating life after detention with 14 men once held as accused terrorists, now cleared and freed, living in nine countries from Albania to Qatar. Environmental portraits in the free world replicate conditions of military regulation photography at Guantanamo Bay: no faces are shown.
With unique construction in English and Arabic, the book seeks common ground while asking provocative questions about compromises made between humanity and fear in the post-9/11 era.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
Cornwall was able to capture a sense of the material life of Guantanamo, for both detainees and the soldiers guarding them. -- Michael McCanne * Art in America * For every image that feels familiar, there is another that breeds a fresh kind of upset. -- Siddhartha Mitter * The Intercept * A surreal portrait of life inside Guantanamo Bay, Camp America. Photographer Debi Cornwall steps inside the walls of the infamous US military prison, exposing an uncanny world of gift shops, bowling alleys and beachfront views. * Huck * ...a sustained look at a shameful and ongoing violation of human decency by the U.S. government. -- Teju Cole * The New York Times Magazine * ...an exhaustively researched, exceptionally photographed documentation of one the most heavily guarded prisons in the world. -- Mark Murrmann * Mother Jones * ...this book needs to be experienced personally to grasp its full impact...The relatively innocent photographs are paired with text and evidence so alarming that it hardly seems real. -- Forrest Soper * Photo-eye Blog * These images ask us to consider the crude and insidious forces that have kept the bad dudes and the rest of us folks as limp and compliant as possible. -- David O'Neill * Bookforum *