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01/07/2009

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Art beyond boundaries

Photography courtesy of Casey Orr.

Armley Prison is the setting for a photo exhibition by a Leeds Met photographer.

Casey Orr, a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Arts & Society, has spent months assembling her collection of 24 portraits, which includes images of prisoners and their families.

Casey, who works as a freelance photographer and has lived in England for 14 years after moving over from the USA, has used her exhibition to explore the nature of migration, community and home.

Speaking of the inspiration behind her photography, she said: "My work is often responding to the fact that I no longer live in America. I'm constantly exploring this separation from my own culture, landscape and family.

"Migration and notions of home are continuing themes as I question my own feelings about where I belong. My work looks at our relationship to nature and the land we inhabit and the constant moving and morphing of our families, communities, selves."

Huge metre-high canvases of her photos will now be displayed outside the main walls of Armley Prison.

A simultaneous exhibition will be on show inside the prison for inmates.

To view a BBC broadcast on Casey Orr's Armley Prison exhibition, click here.

Art beyond boundaries

Photography courtesy of Casey Orr.



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