What is it like to spend more than 25 years in prison?

The Still Doing Life: 22 lifers, 25 years later photography exhibit features portraits and interview excerpts with 22 men and women incarcerated with life without parole in Pennsylvania at two points in time during their incarceration - mid-1990s and 2017.

The exhibit is based on the book Still doing life: 22 lifers, 25 years later (2022, The New Press) by Drs. Barb Toews, UWT criminal justice faculty, and Howard Zehr.

“In 1996, Howard Zehr, a restorative justice activist and photographer, published Doing Life, a book of photo portraits of individuals serving life sentences without the possibility of parole in Pennsylvania prisons. Twenty-five years later, Zehr revisited many of the same individuals and photographed them in the same poses. In Still Doing Life, Zehr and co-author Barb Toews present the two photos of each individual side by side, along with interviews conducted at the two different photo sessions, creating a deeply moving [view] of people who, for the past quarter century, have been trying to live meaningful lives while facing the likelihood that they will never be free.”

For more information about the exhibit, contact Kara Peters, kpeter22@uw.edu or Barb Toews, btoews@uw.edu.