Documenting the Human Experience
Update: Today is March 2, 2014. John Lee was the main person I came to know during my photo documentary project on Heroin addiction. John surrendered to his addiction in the winter of 2016-2017 not long after getting out of…
John Lee preparing his heroin rig in an abandoned East Garfield Park home.
I am very happy to report that John Lee wants to take a stab at getting clean. John was allowed a day-pass yesterday in order to attend to some personal business, and was able to successfully fend off both the…
I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time with heroin addict, John Lee, lately. I really like John as a person, and it truly hurts watching him deteriorate. The first shot was taken Thanksgiving morning, 2013. The other was taken…
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…
I’m involved with a major curating project where I’m going through all my photos that I have on hard drives going all the way back to 2008. Every once in a while, a photo will leap out and grab me.…
This is a large print of John Lee over at Punchie’s house. A small detail about this photo if you look closely, there’s a magazine stuffed into the hole in the wall. It’s a photograph of Robin Williams with his…