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Photojournalist w/ @natgeo & others. 🇻🇳 Professor at @tulaneu. ⚜️ Founder + Exec Director of @womenphotograph.
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31 Oct 2026
I am so excited to announce a new addition to the Café Du Monde City Park mini art print vending machine, located at 56 Dreyfous Dr. in City Park! Meet Daniella Zalcman, Photojournalist, National Geographic Society grantee, Tulane journalism professor, and founder of Women Photograph (Whew! What doesn’t she do?)
For just 4 quarters, you can grab one of these 5 limited edition mini prints from the mini art print vending machine. ✨
🚨 Learn more about the Gallery-To-Go Project (including the other amazing featured artists) at @gallerytogonola
🚨 Learn more about Sam Nga Blum’s other mini art print vending machines at @samngablum
30 Oct 2026
The odd photos I take to finish off a roll of film while mid-reporting trip. Somewhere in South Carolina, August 2026.
29 Sep 2026
FRIENDS! My co-teacher and co-conspirator @nataliekeyssar and I are thrilled to announce that our 2027 NDA Workshop is now open for applications. Come join us in beautiful New Orleans from January 29 - February 1, 2027 for the penultimate weekend of Mardi Gras, where you’ll have opportunities to photograph parades, marching bands, and the chaotic revelry that this city excels at. We’ll also incorporate lots of skills-building talks, conversations with industry leaders, and hands-on coaching.
As always, we have need-based scholarships available and can’t wait to look through your applications.
APPLY HERE: dan.iella.net/nda-workshop
đź“·: 2026 NDA Workshop student @hkhalifa
22 Sep 2026
Join us for an artist talk with Daniella Zalcman (@dzalcman), award-winning documentary photographer and founder of Women Photograph (@womenphotograph).
Zalcman will discuss her ongoing participation in our exhibition, Vision(ary): Raising Our Voices, exploring the enduring legacy of Indigenous boarding schools and the forced assimilation of Indigenous children in North America.
🗓️ Thursday, September 3rd from 7:00 to 8:00 PM ET.
RSVP at the link in bio or www.griffinmuseum.org
28 Aug 2026
Prison labor is everywhere in the U.S., a practice nearly as old as our nation itself. Incarcerated workers are responsible for producing over $2 billion in goods annually, much of which is sold via federal and state prison industries to public institutions like libraries, schools, courthouses and government agencies.
These workers earn little to no money at all.
Last summer, photographer Daniella Zalcman (@dzalcman) scoured the South for the products of prison labor in a strange scavenger hunt across small-town America.
Swipe to see some of what she saw.
đź”— Tap the link in our bio to see and read more.
✍️& 📷: Daniella Zalcman (@dzalcman) for The Marshall Project
📱: Jovelle Tamayo and Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project
04 Aug 2026
While the majority of the products of prison labor that I documented were goods produced for public institutions in each state — libraries, public schools and universities, government agencies, etc. — incarcerated labor is also exploited by for-profit corporations and used in less tangible ways for maintenance. At least seven states have incarcerated people working in governor’s mansions and state capitols: Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Georgia.
01: The Arkansas Correctional Industries website catalog lists eight different articles of workwear from the brand Carhartt. Here is a Carhartt Quilted Flannel Lined Duck Active Jacket in St. Joe, Ark.
02: The grounds of the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas, are maintained by incarcerated workers with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. An estimated 3,000 prisoners are buried on the grounds — most of whom were unclaimed by family members.
03: The Arkansas State Capitol uses incarcerated workers for maintenance, cooking and landscaping. They are not paid for their labor.
04: The Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock — currently home to Sarah Huckabee Sanders — continues to use the labor of incarcerated workers for “household/maintenance duties” on the grounds, according to the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Commission.
Read more about the first chapter of Made in America in the @marshallproj — a million thanks to @jovelletamayo for her brilliant editing and guidance. Follow along here as I share photos, outtakes, and stories from the project over the next few days.
themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/prison-labor-america-photos
19 Jul 2026
These images constitute the first chapter of Made in America — but I plan on spending the next few years visiting all 50 states to document the products of prison labor throughout the country. Most of all, I want to expand our collective understanding that we interact with these goods every single day. This isn’t a criticism of average Americans: it is extremely easy to purchase or utilize products made with incarcerated labor without even knowing it — but in doing so we’ve also seemingly accepted the notion that a prison sentence makes you exploitable for profit.
01: License plates for all 95 Tennessee counties are produced by incarcerated workers in conjunction with TRICOR (Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction).
02: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in White Hall, Ark., was designed and constructed by incarcerated workers with Arkansas Correctional Industries. The Arkansas Department of Corrections website notes that “One of the offenders who worked on the project served in the Vietnam War, and two were directly related to someone who served.”
03: According to Georgia Correctional Industries, incarcerated workers are responsible for producing most of the grills, fire pits and picnic tables in Georgia state parks. This grill is in Indian Springs State Park.
04: Road signs on a state-maintained road in Atlanta. Georgia Correctional Industries is responsible for producing most of the signs on state-maintained roads in Georgia for the Georgia Department of Transportation, according to a GCI official.
Read more about the first chapter of Made in America in the @marshallproj — a million thanks to @jovelletamayo for her brilliant editing and guidance. Follow along here as I share photos, outtakes, and stories from the project over the next few days.
themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/prison-labor-america-photos
15 Jul 2026
I wanted to photograph the authentic products of prison labor in their natural surroundings, largely devoid of people. I hoped this would emphasize their ordinariness — these things that any of us might interact with on a daily basis in our local libraries, schools, and parks.Â
These are photos of just some of the two dozen objects I was able to track down using state prison industries catalogs and social media accounts.
Photos 01 + 02 + 03 + 04: A low-resolution photo of goal-post padding in the Arkansas Correctional Industries Online Catalog emblazoned with “MINERS” in chunky white type was enough for me to trace that particular object to the Bauxite High School Miners’ football field.
The Bauxite Miners play football on this field, which is colloquially known as “The Pit.” The town, home to just over 600 people, is named for aluminum ore, which was once a major source of industry in this region.
Photos 04 + 05: A post on the ACI Facebook page led me to a conference table at the Arkansas Public Employees’ Retirement System offices in Little Rock. Similar tables are priced at $917.85 – $1,433.13 on the ACI website.
Read more about the first chapter of Made in America in the @marshallproj — a million thanks to @jovelletamayo for her brilliant editing and guidance. Follow along here as I share photos, outtakes, and stories from the project over the next few days.
themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/prison-labor-america-photos
13 Jul 2026
The United States is home to one quarter of the world’s prison population, and 61 percent of those incarcerated people are employed. While the vast majority of incarcerated workers are maintaining prison infrastructure — cooking, cleaning, laundry, plumbing and electric — about 10-12 percent of them are working for prison industries, manufacturing goods for the federal government, state government, or for private corporations.
As I charted a route through Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, I began to reach out to corrections officials. Almost every state prison industries’ website has an online catalog, so I was able to quickly scrape together a database of noteworthy goods — eyeglasses for Georgia Medicaid patients, athletic padding for high school gyms and fields in Arkansas, mattresses for college dorms in Mississippi.Â
Photos 01 + 03 + 05: Incarcerated people from Georgia Correctional Industries worked on items as part of a restoration project for the Winder Public Library in 2018. The job included powder-coating and lowering the height of shelving units, providing end panels, reupholstering chairs, and refurbishing book drop boxes.
Photo 02: A braille copy of “Animal Farm” at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Austin. Today there are more than 35 prison braille programs operating in state and federal prisons through the National Prison Braille Network. In order to be eligible, incarcerated workers must obtain braille certification from the Library of Congress.
Photo 04: A burn ban flag at the Boerne Fire Department in Texas Hill Country. The Texas Correctional Industries website catalogs goods produced by prisoners in Texas. A burn ban flag, used to caution against lighting recreational fires during droughts, is available for purchase in the site’s Garment Shop for $35.
Read more about the first chapter of Made in America in the @marshallproj — a million thanks to @jovelletamayo for her brilliant editing and guidance. Follow along here as I share photos, outtakes, and stories from the project over the next few days.
themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/prison-labor-america-photos
10 Jul 2026
Last summer, I set out on a strange scavenger hunt across the American South to document the products of prison labor.
In the United States, prison labor is everywhere we look: a practice nearly as old as our nation itself. Incarcerated workers are responsible for producing over $2 billion in goods annually, much of which is sold via federal and state prison industries to public institutions like libraries, schools, courthouses, and government agencies. Incarcerated workers make between $0.33 and $1.41 per hour for these jobs — though in six southern states, prison workers aren’t paid for their labor at all.
Photo 01: Incarcerated workers at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman produce mattresses for MAGCOR (Magnolia Correctional Industries). These mattresses end up at public colleges and universities across the state, including the dorms at Mississippi State University, such as this one in Cresswell Hall.
Photo 02: The Cross of Calhoun County in Pittsboro, Miss. In March 2024, MAGCOR posted a photo of the cross on Facebook, with the caption, “We are proud of the craftsmanship behind our metal products - exemplified by the Cross of Calhoun County and our beloved Bulldog Benches!”
Photo 03: In Georgia, incarcerated people at Hays State Prison manufacture prescription glasses for Georgia Medicaid patients. They produce over 600 pairs of glasses a day, according to Georgia Correctional Industries. Workers learn how to grind, finish, polish and coat lenses in a certificate program that requires 1,200 teaching hours.
I’m proud to share that the first chapter of Made in America has been published in the @marshallproj today as we mark our country’s 250th birthday — a million thanks to @jovelletamayo for her brilliant editing and guidance. Follow along here as I share photos, outtakes, and stories from the project over the next few days.
Read more:
themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/prison-labor-america-photos
09 Jul 2026
My latest in @columbiajournalismreview on the new @wsj contract that has the photojournalism industry up in arms. Thank you to @brianlfrank @nppalawyer @annieflanagan — link in bio!
08 Jul 2026
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