Inside the Dark
by Lexa Harpell
Title
Inside the Dark
Artist
Lexa Harpell
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
Doors of the World Series by Lexa Harpell.
Rich in history - Kilmainham Gaol has been preserved NOT sanitised!
What I love about this gaol is that they have preserved as much of the original structures without 'polishing it up' and becomming sanitsed. You still 'feel' the essence of this prision.
Dublin's Kilmanham Gaol has a long, brutal, horrid history.
Member of the Easter Uprising were imprisoned and executed here.
Public hangings were common at the front of the prison. Housing men, women and children - at times in the same cell which could hold up to five people. Not a pretty time.
Thousands of prisoners from this gaol alone were sent to Australia as 'free' labour to colonise the country.
IMAGE FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING:
"Lady Photographers" 04/22/2016
"Only Windows, Gates and Doors" 04/23/2016
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April 19th, 2016
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