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Cinema in prison

Experience our photographers’ unique views on detention by browsing the picture gallery below. These photographers have generously shared their portfolios with us.

Four Tunisian prisons host screenings at a film festival. Augustin Le Gall, a photojournalist, brings back a sample of the wind of freedom that blew into Borj Erroumi prison.

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The Borj Erroumi prison overlooking the town of Bizerte in northern Tunisia. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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A prison guard at the entrance to the Borj Erroumi prison before screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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A prison guard in a hall converted for the screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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A prison guard in a hall converted for the screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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A prison guard in a hall converted for the screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Interview with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga before the screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed. Khaled Abol Naga presents the film to 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Ali Mrabet, one of the organizers, is interviewed before the screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed. Lead actor Khaled Abol Naga presents the film to 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Lead actor Khaled Abol Naga presents the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed to 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Inmates in the Borj Erroumi prison watch the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Inmates in the Borj Erroumi prison watch the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Inmates in the Borj Erroumi prison watch the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Inmates in the Borj Erroumi prison watch the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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A detainee paints the portrait of lead actor Khaled Abol Naga after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Lead actor Khaled Abol Naga holds up his portrait painted by a detainee after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed before 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Interview with Mahdi (not his real name), who painted the portrait of lead actor Khaled Abol Naga after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed for 200 inmates of the Borj Erroumi prison, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Inside the Borj Erroumi prison after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Interview after the screening with Emtyez Bellali of the World Organisation Against Torture, a partner of the 2015 Carthage Film Festival, who states: “This film generates a debate and points out the fact that prison detainees, although deprived of their liberty, are still Tunisian citizens. As such, the festival enables them to experience cinema, just as citizens on the outside are able to do.” From the Borj Erroumi prison, Bizerte, Tunisia. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Inside the Borj Erroumi prison after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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View of the entrance to the Borj Erroumi prison after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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View from outside the Borj Erroumi prison after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, for 200 inmates of the prison during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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View of the inner courtyard of the Mahdia prison after screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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Dormitory of the Mahdia prison during screening of the film “Out of the Ordinary” by Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed, with lead actor Khaled Abol Naga attending, during the 2015 Carthage Film Festival. – Augustin Le Gall / Haytham pictures
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"Even if they are deprived of freedom, they are not deprived of their rights. This is also a means of showing them that they are not cut off.”

"There are major challenges; however, there is as much a will to change the situation within the government as in civil society itself."

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Augustin Le Gall

Photojournalist

Augustin Le Gall lives and works between France and Tunisia. His work focuses on documentary and narrative photography, in which the portrait-report is central. He collaborates mainly with the international press, non-governmental organisations, and international institutions. He has been part of the Haytham Pictures agency (France) since 2013.

With a keen interest in the Mediterranean area, humans and their habits are at the core of his work. He considers his photography to be about collective memory and identity constructions, notably in the context of traumatic experiences with a long-term perspective.

His work has been showcased regularly, especially at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM) in Marseille, the Islamic Culture Institute in Paris, the Amnesty International headquarters in London, Amnesty International Canada in Montreal, the film festival and International Forum for Human Rights in Geneva (2015) and in Paris (2016), the national library in Tunis, and the French Institute in Tunisia.