Oscar Wilde's Cell Door


In 1895 Oscar Wilde was imprisoned with hard labour on the charge of gross indecency. Behind this cell door Wilde wrote De Profundis as a letter to his lover on his allocated four sheets of paper per day. He died destitute three years after release at the age of 46.

The door is from Reading Gaol and kindly on loan from The National Justice Museum to Queer Britain, Granary Square, London.

820 photos taken in August 2022 with a Sony a7R III and processed in Reality Capture.
Six plastic clamps around the edges of the door have been removed and painted out in post processing.
Permission to photograph suggested and kindly given by Mark King, Queer Britain.