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Before SARA BENNETT became a photographer documenting women with life sentences, she worked for 18 years as a criminal defense attorney specializing in representing battered women and the wrongly convicted. She has published three books: Life After Life in Prison, Life After Life in Prison: The Bedroom Project, and Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences. Her images have been widely exhibited and featured in such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker Photo Booth, PBS News Hour/Art Beat, PDN Photo of the Day, Variety, and Rolling Stone's "American (In)Justice." Her work can be viewed at lifeafterlifeinprison.com

JOSH BEGLEY is a data artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the creator of Metadata+, an iPhone app that tracks U.S. drone strikes. Begley is the director of two short films, Concussion Protocol (2018) and Best of Luck with the Wall (2016), both produced by Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras. His work has appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Met Breuer, New York Film Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He teaches at Columbia Law School.


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Still Here

Created by

Zahra Rasool

Sarah Springer

Creative directors and producers

Zahra Rasool

Viktorija Mickute

VR

360 videos directed by

Naima Ramos-Chapman

360 video story written by

Naima Ramos-Chapman

Director of Photography

Alan Bucaria

VR Post Production

Maria Fernanda Lauret

Alan Bucaria

AR

Written by

Carvell Wallace

Post Production Leads

Viktorija Mickute

Alan Bucaria

Maria Fernanda Lauret

Voice Actors

Jasmine – Le'Asha Julius

Uncle Maxie - Jeorge Bennett Watson

Colleen - Crystal Arnette

Homeless person - James Brown-Orleans

Photo Exhibit

Curated by

Fred Ritchin

Production by

Zoe Freilich

Website design

Miles Goscha

Six Women

© Sara Bennett

Pison Map

© Josh Begley
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