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Nov 6, 2017 · Debi Cornwall Smoke Break, Camp America Debi Cornwall American documentary photographer Debi Cornwall approached her latest subject, U.S. Naval Station Gauntánamo Bay, with one question.
BY Lyle Rexer, September 2, 2023. Debi Cornwall is a different kind of witness for a media age in which photography is in danger of losing its capacity to make us feel and think. She has evolved from photojournalist to civil-rights attorney to new-style documentarian and, in the process, has perfected an approach that encourages us to question ...
Aug 10, 2018 · One would not expect Debi Cornwall's photographs of the detention centers at Guantanamo Bay to be beautiful or poetic or cute. She is, after all, a former civil rights lawyer who returned to photography after a 12-year law career (Cornwall studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and worked for Mary Ellen Mark and Sylvia Plachy before attending Harvard Law School).
Nov 11, 2021 · In this review, Alexandra S. Moore writes about how Debi Cornwall’s Necessary Fictions examines the U.S military’s engagement in the forever war through photographs and conversations. Moore highlights how through a wide range of elements in the book — from photographs to the weight of the pages — Cornwall intervenes in the narrative of ...
Aug 28, 2023 · Debi Cornwall (US, 1973), winner of the Prix Elysée 2023, one of the most prestigious photography prizes in the world, presents Model Citizens. In this series, which is still in progress, she explores how staging, performance and role-playing feed into the idea of citizenship in our Western societies. The photographic medium becomes a tool for ...
Debi Cornwall is an American conceptual documentary artist who has focused on her career as an artist since 2014 after practicing for twelve years as a civil rights attorney. Employing absurdity and dark humor, she excavates invisible systems by layering still and moving images with testimony and archival material.
Feb 15, 2022 · In Debi Cornwall’s images, however, Guantanamo Bay appears strangely serene and constructed, but also bright, piercing and uncanny. The photographer and filmmaker started her project on the detention camp in 2014, more than a decade after it opened and during a time when she says “people had stopped looking”.
