KINGSTON
PENITENTIARY ZINE

A visual and historical journey through Canada’s oldest maximum-security prison.

This zine explores the haunting atmosphere, architecture, and lasting legacy of Kingston Penitentiary. Through original photography and selected excerpts from historical documents, it builds a layered story that leads the viewer through both the physical site and the echoes of its past. Each image and piece of text works together to reveal how the prison’s walls, corridors, and small details still hold traces of the lives once contained within them.

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Through this combination of lens and language, the zine becomes more than a record of a place. It becomes an invitation to reflect on memory, time, and the human stories that linger long after a place has been abandoned. The result is a quiet but powerful meditation on the stark beauty, heavy silence, and complex history of a site once filled with confinement and resilience.