Being an artist is solitary, lonely and full of secrets ... No one else understands that better than a performer, who gets the “life and death” element of being seen, heard and essentially ...

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.

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 ...