Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay

Welcome to Camp America reflects three bodies of work by conceptual photographer, DEBI CORNWALL: Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play, showing residential and leisure spaces of both prisoners and guards; Gitmo on Sale, depicting the commodification of American military power through gift-shop souvenirs; and Beyond Gitmo, investigating life after detention with 14 men once held as accused terrorists, now cleared and freed, living in nine countries, from Albania to Qatar. 

Environmental portraits in the free world replicate conditions of military regulation photography at Guantánamo Bay: no faces are shown. With unique construction in English and Arabic, the book seeks common ground while asking provocative questions about compromises made between humanity and fear in the post-9/11 era.

Other Radius titles by this artist: Debi Cornwall: Necessary Fictions

AWARDS
Paris Photo-Aperture First PhotoBook Prize, Shortlist, 2017
les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award, Shortlist, 2017
New York Times Magazine, 10 Best Photo Books, 2017
PDN Publisher’s Choice Award, Winner, 2018
Alice Award, Shortlist, 2018
Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award, Longlist, 2018
Lucie First Photo Book Prize, Finalist, 2018