Haunting images by Romain Veillon of France’s last panopticon jail in Autun

There are few places in all of France as forbidding as this abandoned 19th-century prison – as these eerie pictures show. They were taken by French photographer Romain Veillon inside the city of Autun jail, which has a design much-dreaded among prisoners – panopticon, a word derived from panoptes, the Greek for ‘all-seeing’. The cylindrical … Read more