Richard Ross - Architecture of Authority Excerpt from the artist...

Interrogation room, Delta Camp V, Guantanamo, Cuba





Line-up stage, Oakland Police Department, Oakland, California, 2006





Communal room, Security Housing Unit, Pelican Bay State Prison, Crescent City, California, 2006





Isolation room ("rubber room"), US Customs and Border Protection, San Ysidro, California, 2006





Segregation Cells, Camp Remebrance, new Abu Ghraib prison, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, 2006





Booking bench, Los Angeles Police Department, Fifth and Wall Street Station, Los Angeles, California, 2006





Camp 5, Guantanamo, Cuba, 2006





Lethal-injection room, Angola State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, 2006

Richard Ross - Architecture of Authority

Excerpt from the artist statement:

"Architecture of Authority is a body of unsettling pictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them.

The images build to ever harsher manifestations of power: an interrogation room at Guantanamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber.”

Click on each image for location details.