Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition

Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition documents the CIA's secret prisoner-transport program through photographs and the paper trail left by the businesses that made it possible.

Photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black spent years tracing invoices, incorporation papers, and billing records connected to extraordinary rendition, the CIA's post-9/11 practice of transferring detainees between secret prisons without legal process. Clark's photographs of empty rooms, aircraft, and administrative buildings sit alongside reproductions of the documents Black uncovered, building a paper trail for a program designed to leave none. The book includes a text by Eyal Weizman and is printed spiral-bound with a cloth spine, a format that lets photographs and documents interleave directly.

Clark's earlier work, including Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out (2010) and Control Order House (2012), examines state control and incarceration through the physical traces institutions leave behind. Negative Publicity extends that project into the financial and bureaucratic infrastructure of rendition and was copublished by Aperture and the Magnum Foundation, whose Emergency Fund supported the research.