Provokateur Blog » Prison Reform Trust http://blog.provokateur.com Design can change the world Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out http://blog.provokateur.com/2010/10/27/guantanamo-if-the-light-goes-out/ http://blog.provokateur.com/2010/10/27/guantanamo-if-the-light-goes-out/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:58:27 +0000 provokateur http://blog.provokateur.com/?p=960 In Edmund’s own words, “The aim of this website is to provide a platform for comment by those most closely involved in the history of Guantanamo Bay within the visual context of my work exploring the detainee camps and the homes of men held there.” . Day-by-day it juxtaposes images of the prison camp spaces and the post-prison homes of previous detainees to stunning effect. Visit the site here. Visit the European Month of Photography site here. And see more of Edmund’s work here.

Provokateur previously worked with Edmund on the Out of Trouble website for the Prison Reform Trust. You can see that here.

]]> http://blog.provokateur.com/2010/10/27/guantanamo-if-the-light-goes-out/feed/ 0 Out of Trouble campaign for Prison Reform Trust http://blog.provokateur.com/2010/02/09/out-of-trouble-campaign-for-prison-reform-trust/ http://blog.provokateur.com/2010/02/09/out-of-trouble-campaign-for-prison-reform-trust/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:27:37 +0000 Joshua http://blog.provokateur.com/?p=381 Last year over 7,000 prison sentences were given to children. It might be the kind of thing that appeals to Daily Mail readers, but the evidence shows that prison should be the last resort. Far from preventing crime, locking up kids not only embeds  social problems but fails to deal with the problem of young offenders.

The Prison Reform Trust asked Provokateur to help create an online campaign around this important issue and the result is a textbook piece of ecampaigning – creative, engaging and involving.

Provokateur was lucky to work with award winning photographer Ed Clarke who provided a library of incredibly powerful images for the site. These images, combined with key facts about juvenile detention, gave the website an immediate impact. Provokateur also helped set up Twitter and Facebook groups for the campaign, while building into the website a database tool that would allow visitors to locate and email their MPs.

What makes us proud is that the site combines creative punch with technical nous. This is an uncomfortable, even unpopular, issue to campaign on but the result is something that we hope is thought provoking – and effective.

Take a look at www.outoftrouble.org.uk

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