The Ninth Floor Jessica Dimmock

The ninth floor by jessica dimmock the ninth floor documents a group of addicts who moved into the apartment of a former millionaire in a wealthy neighborhood in downtown manhattan.

The ninth floor jessica dimmock.

22nd st in new york city are all are drug addicts. Jessica dimmock born june 23 1978 is a documentary photojournalist and filmmaker based in brooklyn new york city her body of work the ninth floor documented the lives of a group of young heroin users over the course of several years. In an apartment above fifth avenue some thirty young people live in a vortex of drug addiction and despair. In i the ninth floor i jessica dimmock enters this world exploring in human terms what has been lost and what may be recovered.

Jessica dimmock enters a dark world of drug abuse to create the photo documentary the ninth floor. I first saw jessica dimmock s ninth floor work at the foam photography exhibition in amsterdam back in 2008. She shows people that are slaves to drugs in every vulnerable and ugly state of mind through sound and photography. For three years dimmock followed these residents and showcased intimate dark.

Resulting images are surprising powerful and overarchingly intimate. Joe smith in his mid 60s allowed a young addict to move into a spare bedroom in his large three bedroom apartment in hopes of gaining. This is a photographic documentary of the 3 years jessica dimmock associated herself with a group of addicts in the flat iron district of new york. About the ninth floor is a photo essay by photojournalist jessica dimmock that chronicles the lives of three residents of a ninth floor apartment once rented by artist joe smith.

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