Aitchison, Andy: Incarcerated (Pre-Order Signed Copies)

This is what the future used to look like. Dozens of prisons were built in the UK between 1842 and 1877; over 30 of them remain in use today. For over 20 years Andy Aitchison, the UK’s foremost prison photographer, has photographed behind the walls.

The images in Incarcerated are part of ongoing research on the long afterlives of Britain’s Victorian prison estate by geographers, criminologists, and historians. Together they explore how the fabric and function of prisons built in the nineteenth century have changed over time, the tensions between architectural obsolescence and persistence, and what it has felt like to live and work in Victorian prisons then and now. Presented in conversation with essays written by members of the project team, Andy’s photographs form a unique portrait of Britain’s still-functioning Victorian prisons, and those who live and work in them.
 
The research project is a collaboration between Professor Dominique Moran and Professor Matt Houlbrook from the University of Birmingham, Professor Yvonne Jewkes from the University of Bath, and Professor Jennifer Turner from Trier University, Germany.

Title: Incarcerated

Publisher, Year: Bluecoat Press, 2026

Photographer: Andy Aitchison

Language: English

Format: Softback with die-cut double cover

Size, Pages: 190 x 260mm, 240 pages
ISBN: 9781908457998