International Human Rights Art Festival Death Row Photos and Discussion: Scott Langley Scott Langley
About This Show
About the Project
The Death Penalty Photography Documentary Project is a multi-decade product of exploring capital punishment through the photographer’s lens. The project highlights Scott Langley’s efforts as an independent photojournalist and as a human rights activist – bringing together the unique combination of art, journalism and education into one powerful project. The full presentation depicts an hour-by-hour walk-through of what happens on an execution night, taking the viewer from the prison deathwatch cell into the actual lethal injection chamber, while outlining the social implications and concerns around the use of executions.
About the Photographer
Scott Langley is an independent, free-lance photojournalist based in Upstate New York and also a death penalty abolition organizer with several organizations, including Amnesty International. A sociologist by study and a photographer by training, his documentary work has been widespread throughout the world in recent years – particularly his work on the U.S. death penalty and the prison at Guantanamo. Scott currently travels within and outside the U.S. to speak about capital punishment, his work against executions, his work with death row families, and about his photography documentary project.
About the Festival
Dixon Place and the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art present: The International Human Rights Art Festival, produced, March 3-5, 2017 at Dixon Place. This is the first human rights art festival in the long and vibrant history of New York City’s cultural scene. The Festival is produced by Tom Block, long-time artist-activist, author of Prophetic Activist Art: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution, and founder of the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art, an art-activist incubator housed at Dixon Place. Playwright and Director Julia Levine is the Assistant Producer.
The 2017 Festival will involve more than 70 artists presenting 40+ advocacy art events over the weekend, including theatre, visual art, music, dance, installations, workshops, panels, performance, films and KidsFest, to introduce children to the importance of art-advocacy work through hands-on activities. Join us for a weekend of art, advocacy, and celebration, with a happy hour featuring tasty human-rights themed concoctions, human rights trivia, prizes, t-shirts and much more.
Saturday, March 4 at 12:00pm
60 minutes
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