Exonerated
CLIENT:
Legal Team for ALAN CROTZER
CHALLENGE:
After 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Alan Crotzer, was exonerated by DNA evidence. The challenge was to help him re-acclimate to the outside world during his first 30 days of freedom. We were tasked with helping Alan get much needed media attention by creating images that would resonate with people around the world. It was important to get those image out there quickly, so the story would not lose momentum.
OUR SOLUTION:
Conduct an ethnography style shoot by living with Alan to provide a first hand encounter of his experience.
RESULT:
By creating powerful images and working closely with world wide press, we were able to give Alan the media attention he deserved. Because of this global awareness, Alan received generous donations including his first car, his first apartment and his first job. He is currently employed by the state of Florida’s Department of Corrections helping youth at risk and is working towards a college degree .
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- After working closely with his legal team for more than three years, Alan Crotzer feels alone as he sits in the CNN spotlight for his first live solo television interview, days after his release. âThe whole world is out there and I am all alone.â (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- His body worn down after 14 days of constantly trying to balance his commitments between family, friends, church, and a barrage of media requests, Alan Crotzer visits the BayWay Walk-in Clinic in St. Petersburg, FL with flu-like symptoms. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- Alan Crotzer, 45, at the Hillsborough County Orient Road Jail in Tampa, FL. Crotzer spent the last five days of his nearly 25 year incarceration at the facility.
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- âItâs even more beautiful than I remember,â says Alan Crotzer, as he nears the waterâs edge at St. Pete Beach, a few days after being released from prison. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- âYou canât keep living like this or youâre going to die.â Alan Crotzer pleads with his younger brother Mark, who like many in his community, battles long-term drug addiction. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- Long-time friend, Terry âBlueâ Lunsford, informs churchgoers that Alan Crotzer encouraged him, while they served time together in the 1980s, to cast aside his shame and overcome his illiteracy. Today, Blue continues to advance his education. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- âYou can never put your guard down around hereâ says Crotzer as he keeps a close eye on the street in front of his sisterâs home near Butler Park in St. Petersburg, shortly after attending church for the first time as a free man in more than 24 years. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- Alan Crotzer listens to Johnny Jenkinsâ girlfriend after a fight between the couple erupts in the parking lot of a Wendyâs restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- Still unable to sleep more than three hours a night on his twentieth day of freedom, Alan Crotzer falls a sleep at 2:05 am while working the third shift at St. Anthonyâs Hospital. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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- Friends and loved ones gather around Alan Crotzer as he celebrates his long-awaited freedom at a barbeque near his childhood home. (Photo by Vance Jacobs)
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