A small group of photographers received a special invitation to spend the night on Alcatraz Island. There I was, free to roam and to visually interpret the infamous federal prison known as "The Rock." What kept me up that night was not so much going to bed in what had been a killer's cell. It was being on a tiny island in the center of Bay, feeling as though historic tides and electric currents ran through me. Now, 60 years after the prison's closure, the island is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Documentation of the night would later become part of an NBC piece (teaser below), and then a feature length documentary about the GGNRA, "Uncommon Common Good," produced by friends at Convergence Media Productions.
“The rules of the cinematic documentary?”
“There are none.”