Donovan Wylie The Maze

This exhibition by photographer and filmmaker Donovan Wylie is a photographic exploration of one of the world’s most famous prisons. For nearly thirty years the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. The Northern Ireland Prison Service gave Donovan Wylie exclusive permission to photograph freely throughout the entire prison complex without supervision. The resulting book and exhibition documents the physical structure of the place and at the same time, through the quantity and style of the photographs, gives the viewer some experience of the psychological impact of being inside the Maze. 

A Magnum Touring Exhibition, originated by Belfast Exposed Photography with financial support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, National Lottery Fund, the Faculty of Arts and Architecture and Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts at the University of Brighton and in conjunction with the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford. Printing by MPD Digital Laboratories, London