Bad energy down on Hepatitis Boulevard today. Everyone was dope sick. Like I’ve said in the past, heroin addicts are fine to be around – as longs as they aren’t sick… This is Casper, who was kind enough to share…
Documenting the Human Experience
This is Amy, mother of five, extracting heroin from a cooker, and into her syringe. Amy is 35 years old and has been shooting heroin on-and-off for over ten years. Amy was a “functional addict” who maintained a home up…
“Hey man, what’s up?” I said to the new face down on Lower Wacker. “Can you use any clean rigs,” I asked suspecting he was probably a heroin user. “Hell yeah, man! Wow, you came just in time. Are you…
As you may know, for the past twelve months I’ve been working on a freelance documentary photo project covering the subject of heroin addiction in Chicago. Over time, I’ve managed to gain direct access to many of the addicts themselves.…
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