Steve Davis

Photographer

Appearing As Regular People

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Location: Olympia

Nationality: USA

Biography: Steve Davis is a documentary portrait and landscape photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. His work has appeared in American Photo, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, Russian Esquire, and is in many collections, including the... MORE

BRANDON

STANLEY

What do you hope to do, upon release? Raise my son.

DARRIN

ANGEL

THIERRY

DUSTIN What do you hope to do u...p;#39;ll be ready as I can be.

DUSTIN

What do you hope to do upon release? Reunite with my people. I'll be ready as I can be.

JUWAN What to you hope to do, o...or enroll in school.

JUWAN

What to you hope to do, once released? Get a job or enroll in school.

ERIK

DARRIN

IBRAHIM

NATHAN WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ...EASE? Not come back to prison.

NATHAN

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, UPON RELEASE? Not come back to prison.

TERESA WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ...the next step in this process.

TERESA

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? It is my hope to get an education in chemical dependency counseling, perhaps even try for something that deals with animals. The opportunities are endless. I would love the opportunity to help in any way I can with Dress for Success, and look foward to the next step in this process.

LYDIA WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, O...best me I can be when I leave.

LYDIA

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? I plan on staying active in my recovery, and I want to make up for lost time with my family. I also just want to be a productive part of society, During my time here I've done a lot of growing. And I hope to take waht I've learned here and be the best me I can be when I leave.

JOSHUA WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ... a positive help to my family.

JOSHUA

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, UPON RELEASE? Just to be able to be a positive help to my family.

CHANDRA WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO,... a good help to the community.

CHANDRA

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? I would like to start to work for Amazon companies or start flagging again or to landscape yards again, or take care of paraplegic people. Help older people, clean their homes and be a good help to the community.

REYNOLDO WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO... out, be a responsible father.

REYNOLDO

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, UPON RELEASE? Get involved in a church, get an electrical job, stay out, be a responsible father.

DEBRA WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, O...epted working in a restaurant.

DEBRA

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? For a start, I've been accepted working in a restaurant.

TERRY WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, U... Saints wherever they need me.

TERRY

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, UPON RELEASE? Work for the Church of Latter-Day Saints wherever they need me.

EMILY WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, O...h school & I loved it.

EMILY

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? I hope to get into a Oxford home & get my license in phlebotomy & attend school for photography. I'd like to get into the photography field. I took 2yrs in high school & I loved it.

MILORD

FELICIA WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO,...and make home made pet treats.

FELICIA

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? I am gonna start a home based pet treat business and make home made pet treats.

James What do you hope to do up... strength of the human spirit.

James

What do you hope to do upon release? I hope to share the gift of singing and the talent of Public Speaking, along with the other skills I've perfected during my incarceration. Through programs like: Positive Psychology, Toastmasters, Poetry Seminars, Making it Work and Roots of Success. While living a life that reflects the powerful restorative qualities of education, hope, hard work and the strength of the human spirit.

JENNIFER WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO...s love and forgiveness brings.

JENNIFER

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? My plan is to go back to school and get my degree in psychology specializing in substance abuse. I plan on getting a job, work study perhaps, and working my way through shcool until I receive my doctorate degree. I am going home to my husbanc and loving family who have been there for me supporting me 100% this whole journey. I have been enrooled in Victory ible Institute for my entire stay and am a straight A student. I have a passion for the Lord and live to serve Him for the remainder of my days. My plans in life will always be subject to His will for me. I want only to walk the path He has laide out for me and want to finish my studies at Bible College becoming a minister so that I may one day take my degree and go into prison ministries. I hope to be a light to others and lead those who are lost as I once was into the loving arms of the Lord so that they too may experience the freedom and joy His love and forgiveness brings.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, UPON RE...;nbsp;Get my CDL Class A back.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, UPON RELEASE? Back with family. Get my CDL Class A back.

MELONI WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ...ndation of healthy priorities.

MELONI

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? Build my life on a strong foundation of healthy priorities.

WILLIE

Seanez

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? Succeed.

CARLOS

MNICHELLE WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO D...st experiences to help others.

MNICHELLE

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, ONCE RELEASED? I hope to gain stable employment and have the ability to enroll in the welding class at Olympic College. It is my goal to be self supporting and to be able to help my children and my grandchildren. I have a strong desire to give back to my community through volunteer work. I will be a success story and I will use my past experiences to help others.

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Thumbnail of NATHAN WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, U_LEASE? Not come back to prison.

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Thumbnail of FELICIA WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO DO, _ and make home made pet treats.

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Public Story

Appearing As Regular People

Copyright Steve Davis 2024

Updated Feb 2020

Location Washington Correction Center, Shelton, Washington

Topics Abandonment, Activism, Community, Conceptual, Crime, Developmentally Disabled, Institutionalization, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Editorial, Fine Art, Gangs, Human Rights, Illness, Incarceration, Interior, Isolation, Mental Illness, Personal Projects, Photography, Politics, Portrait, Portraiture, Prison, Violence

Prison Inmates Appearing As Regular People. These photographs represent inmates from two corrections facilities in Washington State. In these photographs the subjects were offered the opportunity to select civilian clothing. Many of the volunteers in this series wrote a paragraph or two about their intentions upon release. Church, family and remaining drug-free were the overarching themes found in almost all of their goals. Each were given prints to keep or give to family, or for use in search of a job. The donated clothes are put to good use, given to the soon to be homeless and needier inmates upon their release.

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