Episode 75: Jessica Earnshaw
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Episode 75: Jessica Earnshaw
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Jessica Earnshaw is a documentary filmmaker and photographer, based in Brooklyn, NY.
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(00:00) Moving to NYC for ICP
(02:08) Growing up with a photographer mom
(04:01) Why photojournalism felt empowering
(06:18) Grant: documenting aging in prison
(08:07) Meeting Rosemary and Jacenta
(10:11) Realizing it needed to be film
(12:03) How they landed in prison together
(13:53) Addiction, trauma, and “chasing mom”
(16:02) Getting permission and prison access
(18:14) Filming 2016–2019 with no funding
(20:54) Living broke: motels, burritos, gas
(22:47) Leaving a tour when filming demanded it
(24:46) Men’s prison: long days, earned trust
(27:12) Trauma shaping violence and crime
(30:05) Research: reoffense, parole, and “snapping”
(33:06) Hospice program and Albert’s story
(34:52) Baby Doe: toilet births and denial
(38:16) Gail’s case: DNA genealogy, trial, empathy