Project overview
- Project Lead: Professor Carey Young (UCL Slade School of Fine Art)
- Project name: The Surfaces of Law: A Photographic Study of Legal Architecture
- Funding: The project was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2022-23)
About the project
In Surfaces of Law, Carey Young will create a photographic series which examines the details of legal architecture, such as courthouses, prisons, and law offices.
Instead of the aesthetic blank often associated with law, the design of legal buildings can be a telling aspect of a society’s attitudes towards the judiciary, democracy and the relationship between state and citizens.
By photographing details and surfaces whose details, colours, and patinas speak of power and its relationship to the individual, to ideas of time, liberty and confinement, Young will explore varying ideas of what law is, and what it might represent.
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The Surfaces of Law: A Photographic Study of Legal Architecture
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