THE CAPA SPACE PRESENTS INSIDE AND OUT: WOMEN WITH LIFE SENTENCES, PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARA BENNETT

THE CAPA SPACE PRESENTS INSIDE AND OUT: WOMEN WITH LIFE SENTENCES, PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARA BENNETT

Yorktown, NY – The Capa Space, a nonprofit exhibition and education space featuring “concerned photography” that inspires community participation and social action, announces its upcoming exhibition Inside and Out: Women with Life Sentences by photographer Sara Bennett.

After 18 years as a public defender, Bennett turned her lens towards photographing women serving life sentences, both inside and outside of prison walls. Her unsentimental portraits are powerful reminders that though convicted of serious crimes, these women are no less human than the rest of us.

The exhibition includes works from Bennett’s series ‘In The Bedroom’, intimate looks at the private spaces these incarcerated women sculpt for themselves, and ‘Life After Life’, following women embarking on life outside after decades behind bars. Bennett’s photographs, accompanied by handwritten texts from the subjects themselves, challenge assumptions that they are unredeemable or unforgivable.  As The New Yorker’s Photo Booth stated, “Bennett’s work dulls the sense of otherness that we might associate with perpetrators of serious crimes.”

Inside and Out continues The Capa Space’s mission of using the power of photography to advance equality, justice and human understanding. By going behind the walls and exposing the inner lives of this imprisoned population, Bennett’s exhibition encourages viewers to see these women’s full humanity.

Sara Bennett’s work has been exhibited in museum shows including in the Blanton Museum of Art’s Day Jobs, MoMA PS1’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and the Museum of the City of New York’s New York Now: Home, and in solo shows, including at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, Photoville in Brooklyn, New York, and Rotterdam Photo 2023. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker Photo Booth, and Variety & Rolling Stone’s American (In)Justice.

Exhibition Dates: May 4 – July 21, 2024

Opening Reception: May 4, 5-7pm

The Capa Space is open Thursday-Sunday 1-5pm and is located at 2467 Quaker Church Road, Yorktown NY.

For more information visit www.thecapaspace.org.

About The Capa Space

The Capa Space is an education and exhibition center created to foster and advance the belief that the community can use photography to advance concepts of peace, equality and justice. The Capa Space is dedicated to continuing the legacy of Robert and Cornell Capa’s work as “concerned” photographers. The Capa Space is a place where people gather to create, view and learn about photography. We aim to inspire visitors to participate in the creative process by illustrating the power of photography as a catalyst for social action. Gallery Hours: Thurs, Fri., Sun. 1pm – 5pm and Sat. 11am – 5pm. School Trips: Contact us at thecapaspace@gmail.com