Saturday, April 25, 2009

Narcoman Portraits 2

I've been re-visitng some drug addicts I shot before and their acquaintance. Since I realized that it's almost impossible to follow them around without taking a lot of risk, I'm redoing drug addicts' project with portraits.




















Thursday, April 9, 2009

More Portraits

Since I came back to Ukraine, I've been working on portraits while preparing for a trip in Tajikistan. I still shoot drug addicts in the town, but I kind of feel stuck on this these days. It's pretty hard to follow around them. I haven't published this story, but this type of story doesn't sell... Well, if it's not gonna be published, what's the point? I mean I really think drug addiction is a serious problem here. I heard one third of youngsters here have tried drug harder than marijuana. Anyway, I still like shoot them, so I continue it while I'm here. I also started shooting portraits of them. I don't know if color would give me a better chance for publication, but it might...