Anonymous ways of living from an abandoned prison: Marks of a dead society (abstract: P. 16)

This article presents a photographic essay of the walls of the former prison Desembargador Luiz de Oliveira Souza in Arapiraca, Alagoas, Brazil. It is one of the products of the extension project “Itinerários, mostras de vidas” (Itineraries, an exhibition of lives), whose aim is to debate social reality through the lens of dialogue between different forms of expression. After the prison was closed, the building was donated to the Federal University of Alagoas and incorporated into the Arapiraca campus. The need then arose to make a post factum record of what was once a place where sentences were served. The article comprises an essay capable of revealing the daily life of the individuals who were there. The images depict a story told through the lens of a camera.