Saying goodbye… I don’t have much time left here in Chicago, so before my last few street photography workshops, I went around and took some photos with several of the folks that I’ve come to know over these past eight…
Category: Independent Photojournalism
Teddy, Hercules, and Me – Talkers’ Park, Chicago
I’ll sure miss these guys… Hard to believe that I’ve been photographing these guys for almost five years. Somewhere along the way, they became much more than “photographic subjects;” they became my friends.
Teddy Smith, Alive and Well!
It has been some time since I’ve seen ol’ Teddy Smith. We were working on getting his cataracts taken care of about a year ago, but Teddy has been in and out of jail so much during this time that…
Street Sleeper
We see this sad sight all over the country. When we come across these worn and tattered souls scattered like fallen leaves along the sidewalk, we ask ourselves how something like this came to be, we ask ourselves if there…
Gravis Update: Addicted To Hope
I’m in the process of writing the text narrative for the May issue of Gravis. This will be the last issue in the three-part series, “Against Doctor’s Orders,” which covers the tragic story of a heroin addict known as “Shaggy.”…
Aidan Ellison, age 20, heroin addict
So young… I read “The Hustle,” from the first issue of Gravis to him, that section where I describe how addicts put on their sad faces while panhandling, and then once they get around the corner, they’re all smiles. “Wow,…
The Price of Addiction
I’m almost finished with part two of “Against Doctor’s Orders,” which is the first series of my social documentary magazine, “Gravis.” The next issue contains many photos that I’ve never published, like these black and white film images of Shaggy…