Isabelle Armand is a New York–based documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work interweaves photography, film, and oral testimonies to explore the complex layers of people whose histories, lives, and potential have long been undervalued. Her acclaimed book Levon and Kennedy: Mississippi Innocence Project (powerHouse Books, 2018), which documents the wrongful convictions of two men, has received wide recognition. Her images are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Akron Art Museum, and Portland Museum of Art. Armand’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, The Economist, The Daily Beast, and others. She recently completed her first feature documentary, Glendora.
Armand was awarded a grant from the SHOEN Foundation, in support of her book Levon and Kennedy: Mississippi Innocence Project. She was recently awarded grants from La Fondation CUVELIER and the JOAN NICHOLS Fund for her current photographic and feature documentary film project, Glendora.
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"It's a dramatic story of justice and injustice, but Armand's book examines much more." ― Daily Beast
“Serves as a corrective, offering us a window into an overlooked population." ― Art in America
”The black-and-white images stand out for the beauty of rural Mississippi, the poverty of the two clans, who live mainly in trailers, and the indomitable spirit of the men-who had, almost literally, come back from the dead." ― The Economist
"Her images- photographs that might never have been taken- are at once heartbreaking and full of hope of change, of opportunity, but also of reality. They put faces to the faults in our criminal justice system, to the inequality that still exists in America, and to the necessity of questioning our biases. They make us reconsider what we take for granted." ― Issue Magazine