Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay

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Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay

Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay

2018-02-20 Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay

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Welcome to Camp America is Brooklyn-based conceptual documentary artist and former civil rights attorney Debi Cornwall’s vivid and disorienting glimpse into the US Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cubaknown as “Gitmo”through photographs, once-classified government documents and first-person accounts.The book gathers three series: Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play showing residential and leisure spaces of both prisoners and guards; Gitmo on Sale, depicting the commodification of American military power through gift-shop souvenirs; and Beyond Gitmo, investigating life after detention with 14 men once held a