Wiosna van Bon

de Wiosna van Bon, Liza Szabó, Rob van Hoesel, Rosie Heinrich

What if the person you trusted the most ended up in prison? Many people cannot imagine that a close relative would commit a crime. Family Stranger is a photographic series of the families of detainees, who are suddenly confronted with ethical questions that put their relationships under great pressure. A long process of re-evaluation starts. The family members will have to assess their relationship with their criminal relative and decide whether or not they can live with what they have done. While the lives of these families continue, the detainee enters a sort of time capsule, being imprisoned. The purpose of Family Stranger is to create aware-ness of the struggles that these families endure. Just like the criminal relative, the family is often socially convicted as well, with the possibility of (further) seclusion from society. Therefore, both adults and children experience the topic as taboo, or at least find it very difficult to talk about. With this book, Wiosna van Bon (NL) shows the various ways in which families deal with the situation.