Skip to main content

Search

Items tagged with: prisons

Prisoner artwork on a cell wall at the abandoned Holmesburg Prison

Gallery:history: abandonedamerica.us/holmesburg…

#abandoned #art #photography #prisons

A decaying cell wall with peeling off white paint. There is a drawing on the wall of a serpentine monster with snake eyes, horns, and an open mouth with sharp fangs. Inside the mouth are circular white faces, barely detailed except for the eyes, staring out

Philadelphia's Abandoned Holmesburg Prison : A Dream of Release

Holmesburg Prison, Eastern State Penitentiary's more decayed and less accessible sister, was everything I hoped an abandoned prison would be. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.
www.abandonedamerica.us
#art #photography #abandoned #prisons

⇧