ESOS QUE SABEN: FREE CONVICT, OSCAR B. CASTILLO.; Fotografías Oscar B. Castillo. Edición, Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Oscar B. Castillo. Textos, Oscar B. Castillo, Free Convict

Manizales, Colombia: Raya Editorial, 2022. b/w and some color plates One and Four Color printing. Book 1* (CONVICT ) Bristol 125gr paper. (210p); Book 2* (FREE ) Eco Paper of 90gr. (110 p). Convict attached at rear cover to slip case, plus b/w plates (20 p inserted in front cover; plus b/w and color plates and text, red pict. wrps japanese binding, loose as issued; All together in fldg. case with illustrations on verso. The photobook Free Convict – those who know by Oscar B. Castillo, is a work on imprisonment and the Venezuelan prison system, it has also been on the roots, causes and consequences of the cycle of violence that has devoured the country in recent years. It has been, and still is, about Hip Hop and youth, about education, inclusion, and culture. Through photography, documents, interventions, collages and collaborative work this book aims to interconnect the dots of childhood, adolescence, education, exclusion, family, the mirage of power and aggressive masculinity and the reality of fast death or hard work for self-redemption. And how these young men living in a system that sees them as a lost cause, and with all the odds against, built and developed their own plan for reinsertion to freedom from incarceration. "The Free Convict Hip Hop Collective and their journey from incarceration to freedom in Venezuela." --Artist's website. Awards: Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. 2022 First PhotoBook Shortlist. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXTS. LIMITED EDITION OF 500.