Vladimir Karamazov's Long-Term Project Inside Bulgaria's Harshest Prison

Vladimir Karamazov's ongoing project For the Grace of God takes him inside Belene, a maximum-security island prison in northern Bulgaria holding the country's highest concentration of life-sentenced murder convicts. One photograph from the series focuses on a prison-wide ban on pet cats, instituted after inmates began killing each other's animals as acts of revenge. Karamazov documents the detail as part of a broader examination of enforced isolation and the destruction of any attachment a prisoner forms.