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…
Category: Independent Photojournalism
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…
Junkie Den, Chicago 2013
WGN just did a story on the heroin epidemic here in the Land. They said a $10.00 bag could “keep an addict high for a day or two.” That’s just not correct, at least not in my experience. I do…
Teddy – Like a Rolling Stone
“This, is my living room. I live in the Loop – on the concrete.” -Teddy I’m looking through shots of Teddy that I took the other day. I was just thinking, it was about one year ago when I first…
Shaggy and Russ – Junkie 2013, Chicago Heroin
The heroin epidemic continues to sweep across the land taking its victims from every economic class, and every race – Heroin holds no quarter. This is Shaggy helping Russ inject down on Hepatitis Boulevard.
Susan: Junkie, 9-02-2013
Cookin’ some China White down on Hepatitis Boulevard. This is Susan, another victim of heroin addiction… Mother of two… …with dreams of becoming an artist…