JUDITH CRICO
JUDITH CRICO
DON'TWORRY ABOUT ME
France, Canada
2022
Every year, nearly half a million people in France and Canada are affected by the imprisonment of a loved one. In visiting rooms, the vast majority of visitors are actually women: spouses of prisoners, mothers and sisters.
Standing at the door of the visiting room every week. Worrying.
feeling responsible. Isolating yourself. Forget the looks of passers-by and neighbors. Send money every month. Pay legal fees. Prepare parcels every year-end. Carry bags of laundry again and again. Resist.
"Ne t'inquiète pas pour moi" (Don't worry about me) highlights the daily lives of these prison families, the strength of family ties, but also the suffering and stigmatization engendered by the prison system.
Developed in co-construction with these families, the project is a combination of photographs, archives of their past, letters received and personal writings. I collect notes from their diaries, poems or prayers that they have
written. In fragments, intersecting portraits are sketched out and then drawn.
