Sugar paper theories: .

• Main Author: Latham, Jack (Photographer)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: Here Press; Photographers' Gallery 2016
• Subjects: Missing persons > Investigation > Iceland > Pictorial works; Iceland > Pictorial works; Artists' books; Iceland
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A5480

A book about two men who went missing in southwest Iceland, the biggest and most controversial murder investigation in the country's history, with the highest levels of political power drawn into the plot. Ultimately, a group of young people on the fringes of society made confessions that led to convictions and prison sentences, yet none could remember what happened on the nights in question. Now a public inquiry is uncovering another story, of how hundreds of days and nights in the hands of a brutal and inexperienced criminal justice system eroded the link between suspects' memories and lived experience. Jack Latham photographed the places and people that feature in various accounts of what happened to Gudmundur and Geirfinnur after they vanished. He spent time with the surviving suspects, as well as whistle blowers, conspiracy theorists, expert witnesses and bystanders to the case. In 'Sugar Paper Theories', Latham's photographs and material from the original police investigation files stand in for memories real and constructed. Professor Gisli Gudjónsson CBE, a former Reykjavik policeman and forensic psychologist whose expert testimony and theory of memory distrust syndrome helped free the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four – and are now central to the Gudmundor and Geirfinnur inquiry – provides a written account of the case.