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A visual journey that explores prison as a place of power, punishment, and control, but also as a space of resistance and potential transformation. From prison architecture to life behind bars, from the violations endured by minorities to artistic practices born within incarceration, photography becomes a tool to reveal the unseen, bridge distances, and restore humanity.

Alongside the books, the exhibition features Fine Pena Mai by Veronica Barbato, a photographic project that gives voice to the “other convicts”: the families and loved ones of those in prison. Parents, children, spouses, and companions who, without guilt of their own, endure an invisible sentence made of absence, stigma, solitude, and suspended lives. Through powerful images and poetic texts, Barbato reveals the silent impact of incarceration on those left outside prison walls, offering an intimate yet universal perspective.