- Jan Banning
May 4th 1954, Almelo
Dutch photographer and artist. Banning was born in the Netherlands from Dutch-East-Indies parents. He studied social and economic history at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and has been working as a photographer since 1981. A central theme of Banning's practice is state power, having produced series about the long-term consequences of war and the world of government bureaucracy.
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[…] Law & Order, the new book by Dutch photographer Jan Banning, is a comparative study of the criminal justice systems in four countries: Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. Two of Banning’s earlier works—one a series of photos on homelessness in the southern U.S., the other a study of civil servants in eight countries—led Banning to think about the connection between social justice and crime, and inspired him to examine another aspect of the trias politica: the judiciary. […]
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[…] China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States and Yemen. Banning’s newest book, “Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,” is a natural extension of “Bureaucratics.” The book is a rare and innovative examination of […]
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[…] years earlier than Trump started touting the phrase, the challenge dubbed “Law and Order” was born. The collection revolved round a single query: “How can we deal with crime?” and […]
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[…] to a much needed reevaluation of our globally trigger-happy legal system, Dutch photographer Jan Banning undertook the seemingly impossible task of photographing prisons around the world. By travelling to […]
[…] to a much needed reevaluation of our globally trigger-happy legal system, Dutch photographer Jan Banning undertook the seemingly impossible task of photographing prisons around the world. By travelling to […]
[…] σκληρού νομικού συστήματός, ο Ολλανδός φωτογράφος Jan Banning ανέλαβε το φαινομενικά ακατόρθωτο, να φωτογραφίσει […]