2001 powerHouse Books Foreward by Norman Mailer
Introduction by Robert Coles
"The hallways and lobbies of a New York City criminal courthouse are not like other places. In most buildings, people pass through crisply on their way somewhere. In these corridors they only wait—wait for adjourned court appointments, wait for a tardy witness, wait while their lawyers confer with th ejudge or DA—endlessly wait. And what they wait for fills them with dread, anger, sadness, shame, resentment, self-loathing, self-pity, self-doubt, or premonitions of endless loneliness. Smiles are not often seen; laughter is rarely heard; eyes most often are expressionless. Thomas Roma's camera sees all this—the grimy plaster corridors, the rancid smells, the gloomy, down-and-out dullness in the eyes, the pervasive absence of hope."
——Judge Pierre N. Leval, United States court of Appeals, Second Circuit
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