Edmund Clark: If The Light Goes Out / Letters to Omar
The narrative of these images aims to evoke the process of disorientation and dislocation central to the techniques of incarceration at Guantanamo. The photographs force the viewer to jump from prison camp to domestic stillness, from freedom to confinement and from light to dark. Clark explores the powerful resonances of control, causing a sense of unease through unexpected juxtapositions, giving a human insight into the experience of the men released without charge after years of incarceration. As the men re-adjust to their newfound freedom, their post-prison homes reveal the contrast between their domestic interiors and the confined spaces of the prison camps although motifs of confinement are present in both.