Mark West and Molly Rose

Artist Jeff Barnett-Winsby had been photographing in Lansing Prison for a year, when he found out that an inmate, John Maynard, had escaped with the help of a social worker, Toby Young. Maynard and Young, under the aliases Mark West and Molly Rose, were captured two weeks later in Tennessee. This book is a collection of Barnett-Winsby’s photographs and correspondence with the two lovers, both before and after the escape.

Jeff Barnett-Winsby was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1979 and currently lives and works in Wassaic, NY where he is a co-director at the Wassaic Project, a community based arts and music organization. He received a BA from Washburn University in 2002 and a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. He has taught in the graduate and undergraduate programs at the Rhode Island School of Design as well as the University of Rhode Island. Most recently he has shown at Broadway Gallery in NYC.

160 pages, color and b&w, paperback
edition of 1000