Cosmin Bumbut is a fantastic Romanian photographer I’ve known about for years, that hasn’t been properly featured at the Daily Sloth yet purely by chance. But this post isn’t about the pictures he took.

Some time ago he came up with the project of giving 6 convicts in a women’s prison in Romania point-and-shoot cameras so they could document firsthand what life in prison is like. The results are stunning – the pictures that came out of the project are one of the purest examples of documentary photography that you’re likely to see. Completely free of constraints that learning photography “the proper way” brings with it, the pictures are simple, yet emotionally rich and completely raw in essence, in a way they never could have been if they were filtered by the eyes and mind of an outsider.

If you want to learn more, Cosmin tells the story of the project here (scroll down for English translation).