Ciera walking the streets of K-Town on Chicago’s West Side searching for someone who’s “working.” Don’t do junk! The number one message that Heroin addicts wish for me to pass along is: “Don’t Do Junk!” Don’t think that you can…
Category: Heroin Addiction
Euphoria’s holy comfort
Benjamin, October 2013 – I ran into Ben today. He was up to his usual simple life – score, inject, score, inject, score… The junkie life is relatively simple, yet extremely difficult. Blood rolls through syringe’s chamber wall like dark…
Shaggy preparing for his next “jab”
This is Shaggy preparing for his next “jab” in an abandoned West Side Chicago home. Shaggy has been injecting Heroin for the past five years, and he’s only 23. On the day we took these photos, Shaggy had received news…
“This, Is What I Love To Do”
I was reading Nietzsche while sitting under the shade of twisted Empires when it hit me – it hit me like a flash of light cast down from the heavens by the gods themselves. The raw truth flowed from that…
“I Really Need It” – Hustling Enough For A Big Bag of Heroin – The Magnificent Mile, Chicago
As of 1-27-2014, I have been working on a Heroin addiction photography project here in Chicago for six months. During this time, I have come to know several addicts on a deep and personal level. We’ve built a relationship, and…
On Photography: My Soul, Is Not For Sale…
My response to a question about photographers who seek dark subjects for shock value and money (I often catch hell for my photos. I was accused of exploiting people just the other day): I can’t speak for anyone else. All…
Feminine Addiction: Thanksgiving, 2013
Junkie, Ciera, Hepatitis Boulevard, Chicago 2013 – Minolta SRT 202, 50mm, Tri-X 1600 Push Ciera is a 22 year old girl from rural Indianan. She washed up onto the concrete shores of Hepatitis Boulevard for the first time about six…
Suburban Pharmacist Helps Spread Disease During Heroin Epidemic
Mike Gorski works as Pharmacist for the Tinley Park Kmart Store off of Harlem Ave (16300 Harlem Ave). Gorski apparently likes to help spread diseases by denying consumers the right to buy syringes without a prescription. Gorski and I had…