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.

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...

Laptop&Mamiya

Part of the reason I went to New York was to receive a used Mac Pro as a bonus and buy a used Mamiya 6. I'm pretty happy about them so far except that I had to ship back a broken Mamiya lens for exchange . It's a pretty sharp lens.
This is the test shot while Jake is setting up his mac pro for me, kindly coming all the way to New York to give me a laptop.

No Picture For A While

I've been quite lazy on updating the blog. Went to London, New York and Warsaw for various businesses... I'm shooting more with film, so it will take some time to post new pictures...

Memory of Donetsk

I moved to Dniprodzerzhynsk some months ago. Before that, I lived in Donetsk for two months, translating, learning Russian and drinking alone. I couldn't find much over there to shoot and shot Lenin's statue just like every tourist. I realize later that every former Soviet union city and town has a Lenin statue... Ukrainian landscape is pretty similar everywhere in the east part, to say the least.

Kinda slow these days...