PPOTR Dispatch #4: Interview with Robert Gumpert
Leonard Freed’s Police Work, Don McCullin’s Vietnam Inc., Cornell Capa’s The Concerned Photographer, books by August Sander, Robert Frank, Eugene Smith, Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas and Jim Goldberg....
View ArticlePrison Obscura, My First Solo Curating Gig, is the Culmination of 5-Years of...
It is with giddy, air-punching pride and mammoth-sized gratitude for those that helped me along the way that I announce the imminent opening of Prison Obscura. This exhibition is my first...
View Article‘Prison Obscura’ Installation Shots
Just a quick post to say … It happened. Prison Obscura opened. With a fantastic turnout. Gallery was crammed for the curator’s talk and people said many nice things. I pulled my usual trick, clocking...
View ArticleSan Francisco Jail Portraits and Audio Interviews, by Robert Gumpert, on Show...
Photographer, friend and fellow San Franciscoer Robert Gumpert will be exhibiting at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California from January 25th to March 15th. On show will be photographs from two...
View Article‘Prison Obscura’ at Parsons, NYC, Feb 5-Apr 17
After stints at Haverford College, PA; Scripps, CA; and Rutgers, NJ, my first solo-curated effort Prison Obscura is all grown up and headed to New York. It’ll be showing at Parsons The New School of...
View ArticleWELCOME TO THE “LORD’S” HOUSE: Robert Gumpert Inside the SHU at Pelican Bay...
8 June 2012: Crescent City, CA. California State Prison: Pelican Bay Prison. Examples of kites (messages) written by prisoners. These were discovered before they were smuggled out. Too often since...
View Article‘Prison Obscura’ Opening and Installation Shots at Evergreen State College,...
EVERGREEN OPENING NIGHT, THURS 14TH JANUARY Prison Obscura opened at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington last Thursday. It is on show until March 2nd. Ryan Richardson, manager of the...
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