The Ninth Floor Jessica Dimmock

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.

The ninth floor jessica dimmock.

In an apartment above fifth avenue some thirty young people live in a vortex of drug addiction and despair. 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. This photo documentary definitely creates a deep inner sadness and frustration inside of me.

I first saw jessica dimmock s ninth floor work at the foam photography exhibition in amsterdam back in 2008. 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. 22nd st in new york city are all are drug addicts. 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.

She shows people that are slaves to drugs in every vulnerable and ugly state of mind through sound and photography. Jessica dimmock the ninth floor hardcover over the past two years has photographed a group of diehard heroin users living on manhattan apartment building. Resulting images are surprising powerful and overarchingly intimate. In i the ninth floor i jessica dimmock enters this world exploring in human terms what has been lost and what may be recovered.

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