Documenting the Human Experience
Update: Today is March 2, 2014. John Lee was the main person I came to know during my photo documentary project on Heroin addiction. John surrendered to his addiction in the winter of 2016-2017 not long after getting out of…
John Lee preparing his heroin rig in an abandoned East Garfield Park home.
I am very happy to report that John Lee wants to take a stab at getting clean. John was allowed a day-pass yesterday in order to attend to some personal business, and was able to successfully fend off both the…
I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time with heroin addict, John Lee, lately. I really like John as a person, and it truly hurts watching him deteriorate. The first shot was taken Thanksgiving morning, 2013. The other was taken…
Hey, John. How you doin’? You’ve been dead for several years now. I think about you all the time, about everything we talked about. I can’t help but see you lying dead in that bando that you liked to shoot…
This image of John Lee was taken around 2013. John and I spent a great deal of time together, talking about everything under the sun. We would sit on Lower Wacker and talk history, philosophy, and morality. John overdosed a…
I’m involved with a major curating project where I’m going through all my photos that I have on hard drives going all the way back to 2008. Every once in a while, a photo will leap out and grab me.…