Fotoecke / Photobooth, 2009

C-Print, Diasec

The work shows an image of a photo center in the political prison in Gera. The inmates were photographed regularly. Years after the prison was closed, someone noticed that a striking number of the detainees suffered from leukemia. A subsequent investigation unearthed that hidden behind the curtain was another photographic device, an x-ray apparatus, which had been used without the optics, probably emitting radiation unhindered and contaminating the inmates. 

Photo © Studio Hans Wilschut