34. Jan Banning: Artivist challenging the system

Please note this is an audio recording. To see the video with pictures click here

https://youtu.be/rGmh58M0f-0

Jan Banning is a Dutch autonomous artist/photographer, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

He was born in Almelo (Netherlands) on May 4, 1954, from Dutch East Indies parents, and he studied social and economic history at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Both of these facts have had a strong influence on his photographic works.
Banning’s work always has a social focus. The social political environment is put at the fore and it often concerns subjects that have been neglected within the arts and are difficult to portray: state power, consequences of war, justice and injustice. In this conversation we mainly talk about his work making portraits of prisoners in US prisons and in particular about Christina Boyer, wrongly imprisoned for the murder of her daughter. You can see more about this here
https://gogetfunding.com/wrongfully-imprisoned-for-her-daughters-death-the-book/
and read more about Jan below 

https://www.janbanning.com/