Ken Weingart Art Blog | Podcast

Sara Bennett is a photographer from New York, who has been generating a lot of excitement with her edgy and humane look at women prisoners with life sentences. Her work and stories have been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications.  Bennett was a public defender in New York for 18 years, and has an intimate knowledge and connections into the prison system.  Her recent series include Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences, Life After Life in Prison: The Bedroom Project, Spirit on the Inside, Portraits at Six Feet, and Yoga After 50.