This pic was taken during my first fieldwork with Ecuadorian prisoners (2003 - 2005). It is part of a longer-term ethnographic project currently entitled 'Prisoners as Infrastructure.'
Francois Coco Laso, "Panopticon of Quito (Ex Penal Garcia Moreno)", contributed by Jorge Nunez , STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 6 August 2019, accessed 20 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/panopticon-quito-ex-penal-garcia-moreno
Critical Commentary
This is a picture of Quito's panopticon prison built in 1875 and decommissioned in 2014.