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Category: Social Documentary photography
Social Documentary Photography by Chuck Jines covering subjects from heroin addiction to political protests.
Legends never die
Junkies perform Holy rituals upon urine-soaked altars, like High Priests consecrating sacraments of Blood, Spike and Flame. Holy, Holy, mother of god, blessed are you among addictions, and blessed is the sting of thy death. (This image of Shaggy…
Addiction Holds No Quarter
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…
Bookstore
My Social Documentary Photography Project Bookstore: I spent two years documenting heroin addicts in Chicago. This book is the result of that work. I hope the images and story help someone to make the right decision when it comes to…
The magic of photography
I was looking through a stack of large prints from one of my #photodocumentary projects, and this image made me think about the magic of photography. This famous business down in #NewOrleans is no longer there… except in the images…
Sins yet to come
Why do you torment me where even in my sleep I find no relief? You pull on my soul like a phantom force. You drag me to places I want not to go. You tempt me to do things I…
Faceless city
Beneath the faceless city where the fallen angel’s roam, lurking in dank corners, nameless junkies learn to call the darkness home.
Far, far away…
Were you not loved as a child? Who withheld their tender touch from your newly born skin? Who scowled at your arrival? Were you not tossed into this abyss of madness we call mankind, naked, cold, and alone? Was I…