“I really want to get clean, but I hate having to get fucking sick.” -John
Category: Independent Photojournalism
When Clouds Get In The Way… R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman
“No civilization has found life tolerable without narcotics or stimulants.” -Will Durant The recent death of actor Philip Hoffman has pulled the issue of heroin addiction into the forefront of our collective attention. To look at the photo of Philip…
Late Night K-Town, Karlov & Lake, Almighty Vice Lord Nation
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…
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…
6:08 AM – Dandelions and Daffodils…
6:08 AM… Somewhere on the Railroad Earth Dandelions and Daffodils Some flowers are hardy, able to withstand the trampling that life walks out. Other flowers are constructed of a softer, yet more colorful hue. Major breakthrough yesterday. For several months…
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…
Word From The Street: Nasty Shit
Nasty Shit: The hard realities of street life… This poor soul shits out a hole she has in the back of her pants. She will not accept any help. She comes to this drinking fountain in Talkers’ Park on a…
Teddy: Reflections and Resolutions
“2013… shit, I’m glad that mother fucker is over. I was institutionalized, jailed, placed in confinement in a facility for the criminally insane for perpetrating a fraud – and all sorts of other mishaps and misfortunes… I hope to do…