This project is my first since stepping away from a 12-year career as a civil rights lawyer representing the wrongly convicted. Now, as a photographer again, I look at the same kinds of issues but from a new perspective that honors the humanity of both sides of conflict and invites us all to look, together. GAH, GAP looks at the reality of life for those displaced to Guantánamo Bay (known as "Gitmo"), Cuba, both detainees and the military personnel who guard them. Due to regulations prohibiting any photos of faces, these are for the most part formally composed still lives of residential and leisure spaces. Any people are turned away from the camera. Life here for both groups is defined by routine, by order, by boredom. By looking away from the obvious subject I hope to offer a new perspective on America's response to September 11.
