by Zoë Pollock
Rosecrans Baldwin interviews photographer Billie Mandle about her project Reconciliation:
I have always been fascinated by the way confessionals become containers—holding people’s voices and secrets. … [O]ne of the things I found interesting was that the confessional is meant to point away from itself, to be invisible. The small rooms should draw the penitent into introspection, which is why most confessionals are completely dark. When the project started I liked the idea of trying to photograph spaces that are meant to be ignored.
(Photo: Our Lady of Angels)
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