Panel Discussion with Sara Bennett

at Blue Sky Photography

OHOM staff recently participated in a panel discussion at Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photgraphic Arts with artist Sara Bennett, OHOM Executive Director, Carla Grant and representatives from Mercy Corps NW’s Prison and Re-Entry Services, YMCA of Greater Portland’s Family Preservation Project. The event took place on Saturday, February 8, 2020.

The twenty-one women photographed by Sara Bennett in The Bedroom Project were all convicted of serious crimes— mostly homicide—and spent fourteen to thirty-seven years in a maximum-security prison. By the time they came up for parole they were all profoundly changed, yet most of them were repeatedly denied release because of the crimes they had committed decades earlier.

Watch the video recording of the panel discussion here or below.