Please join us in the Langston Room for this book event and signing with Crofton Black, author of Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, discussing his and photographer Edmund Clark's new work on the CIA's secret detention network.
Since George W. Bush’s 2001 declaration of the “war on terror” until 2008, more than one hundred people disappeared into a network of secret prisons organised by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Many of them were shuttled across the globe on contracted business jets, without legal process – covert transfers of human cargo, otherwise known as extraordinary renditions. Their movements were never made public. Some were later sent on to Guantánamo Bay or released; others remain unaccounted for.
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, by counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black and photographer Edmund Clark, is a new book of images and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. Clark and Black illuminate the network of CIA ‘black sites’, travelling worldwide to photograph former detention sites, prisoners’ homes and government locations, and assembling a paper trail that exposes the weak points of this unlawful system hidden in plain sight. Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition raises fundamental questions about the accountability and complicity of governments and corporations in acts of torture and imprisonment without due process.
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