Publisher's Synopsis
In 1999 Thomas Roma found himself inside the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory. Overwhelmed by the evidence of the lives spent inside those small rooms Roma returned to take the images collected here In Prison Air. The cells of the prison are now empty of the men that endured their squalor, but, as In Prison Air attests to, their very presence remains through the detritus and graffiti accumulated over the prison's century-long history. Moving, inspiring, painful and truthful.
