Icon-writing, a path to recovery for prisoners in Poland
A Bialystok Prison jailer checking prisoners going for orthodox icon painting classes. Photo courtesy: AFP Maja Czarnecka – 16/2/13 Bialystok, Poland, Feb 16, 2013 (AFP) — Behind the bars of a prison on Poland’s eastern fringe, a dozen women serving time are lost in concentration as they learn the intricate art of icon-writing in the Orthodox Christian tradition. The centuries’ old craft, which typically displays the Virgin with the baby Jesus, saints and Christ in rich strokes of dark red, green and gold is being used for the first time as part of a social reintegration programme at a major correctional facility in Bialystok
A Bialystok Prison jailer checking prisoners going for orthodox icon painting classes. Photo courtesy: AFP Maja Czarnecka – 16/2/13 Bialystok, Poland, Feb 16, 2013 (AFP) — Behind the bars of a prison on Poland’s eastern fringe, a dozen women serving time are lost in concentration as they learn the intricate art of icon-writing in the Orthodox Christian tradition. The centuries’ old craft, which typically displays the Virgin with the baby Jesus, saints and Christ in rich strokes of dark red, green and gold is being used for the first time as part of a social reintegration programme at a major correctional facility in Bialystok
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Icon-writing, a path to recovery for prisoners in Poland
