Collaboration with Liz Linder Photography
Collaboration with Liz Linder Photography
ASP piloted its first Shakespeare residency inside a girls Department of Youth Services lock up facility in 2005, and has struggled since then to document the powerful and beautiful performances by youth in ASP’s Incarcerated Youth at Play program. The restrictions that protect court involved youth prohibit photography of their faces and release of their names.
In 2010, we encountered the raw and unsentimental work of local photographer Liz Linder. We invited her to capture the physical and emotional states of ASP program participants, actors and teachers as they responded to a single Shakespeare word, such as soul, love, or quarrel. Liz and ASP collaborated to make life size photographs that captured these moments. We are struck by the evocative stories that appeared in a simple gesture as people explored their relationship to a word.
You can see these portraits without faces here on our website and in our lobbies. The DYS images will be at the Moakely courthouse as part of the DYS arts exhibit through March.