Aaron Huey's photos of prison art

Aaron Huey is a DU alum and a famous photographer, and I have been looking at his work a lot ever since his TEDxDU speech. I came a cross an interesting category in his blog: PRISON ART.

This category is dedicated to the photographs Huey took of Travis Lone Hill's artwork. Travis is an inmate at the Springfield State Penitentiary, and he draws all artwork on prison paper, such as parol hearing notices & agreements.

Here is one of the photos:

Do you think this is activist media? What kind of message do you think Aaron or Travis were trying to send?

Here's the link to the PRISON ART category page on his blog: