Overview

Albert “Prodigy” Johnson served three and a half years in prison, and during that time his focus was on his health—an almost impossible feat behind bars, where many inmates often enter the prison system healthy, but leave with diabetes and hypertension. Commissary Kitchen provides a deeper perspective of what it’s like to prepare and consume meals in prison. This book is a beautiful representation of the ingredients, prepared meals and various anecdotes about situations in prison involving food. While the work is informational, creatively it humanizes the prison meal experience in a way that has never been done before.
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Role
Creative Director
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Project
Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook.
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Client
Infamous Books
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Objective
To conceptualize Albert “Prodigy” Johnson’s dream of a commissary recipe book which reflected his own ability to tell dark tales of poverty and street life in an engaging and compelling fashion. Provide creative direction for photography shoots which included Prodigy, ingredients, prepared meals, layout and design for cover, book interior and collateral marketing materials.
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