Each night we would review the footage, and find we had captured amazing unexpected slices of life in solitary – like the art of prison ‘fishing’. Inmates in solitary unravel their sheets ...

took a more extreme approach to the solitary lifestyle. The 82-year-old was the only known resident of a small island off the coast of Japan until he left his life in seclusion for health reasons.

The solitary ... to study art in Denmark. The academy in Copenhagen trained students to draw the human body, first after plaster casts of classical sculpture, then from nude life studies.