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It was co-published by the Magnum Foundation and Aperture 2016 and won the Rencontres d'Arles Photo-Text Book Award that year and the ICP Infinity Award for Documentary and Photojournalism in 2017. The book is held in the V&A National Art Library Special Collections (Pressmark 804.AS.0004). Negative Publicity comprises photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush’s 2001 declaration of the ‘War on Terror’ until 2008, an unknown number of people disappeared into a network of secret prisons organised by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – transfers without legal process, otherwise known as extraordinary rendition. No public record was kept as these prisoners were shuttled all over the globe. Some were eventually sent to Guantánamo Bay or released, while others remain unaccounted for.\r\n\r\nThe images from Negative Publicity show former detention sites, detainees’ homes, companies and government locations. The paper trail assembled in the book shows these activities via the weak points of business accountability: invoices, documents of incorporation, and billing reconciliations produced by the small-town American businesses enlisted in prisoner transportation. As a whole, the project traces the network that links CIA ‘black sites,’ secret prisons used to interrogate suspects. The photographs and texts work together to evoke ideas of opacity, surface, and testimony in relation to a hidden system. The idea of redaction, censorship or obscuring secret and factual information runs through the texts and images and is used as a device to link them both. 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