Exhibition: Inside and Out: Women with Life Sentences, Photographs by Sara Bennett

Exhibition: Inside and Out: Women with Life Sentences, Photographs by Sara Bennett

After 18 years as a public defender, Sara Bennett turned her attention to photographing women with life sentences, both inside and outside prison. Bennett’s unsentimental photographic portraits are potent reminders that although convicted of serious crimes these women are no less human than we are. Bennett challenges the assumption that these women are unredeemed or unforgiveable. Her photographs, which include handwritten text by the women themselves, suggest that people are more than their worse act.