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The innocents / photographs and interviews by Taryn Simon ; commentary by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project

This work documents the experiences of individuals wrongly convicted of violent crimes, examining the role of photography and visual memory in mistaken identification. It analyses how photographic evidence can influence eyewitness testimony and the outcomes of judicial cases.

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