Double Time Pictures of the Arizona State Prison at Florence

Abstract

Abstract This visual essay is drawn from Double Time, one of a series of three documentary projects on the theme of what might come after a prison is shuttered. Made partly in dialog with ongoing abolitionist organizing by Mass Liberation in South Phoenix, Double Time focuses on Arizona’s origins as a state, at the intersection of the Civil War and the echoes of the Haitian Revolution, as the War’s twin capacities of war-making and image-making pushed the US’ imperial expansion westward.