Micha Bar Am High security prison in Beersheba. Israel. 1971.
"Prisons are not camera friendly, especially not high security ones. When I was finally granted permission to photograph inside the Beersheba p
(...) rison, it was under the condition that I did not talk to the prisoners.
When I approached this solitary confinement cell, the prisoner did not even try to communicate. Rather, he posed himself in the beam coming in from the skylight porthole. It was the perfect frame.
This image was published on the covers of many books in many languages, describing the yearning for freedom.
I still think it needs no words."
- Micha Bar-Am © Micha Bar Am | Magnum Photos
