My Addiction- My Reckoning


  • Photographer
    Justin Maxon
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Aurora Photos
  • Date of Photograph
    2010
  • Technical Info
    BW Film

: As a teenager, I was trapped in a cycle of drug addiction. This darkness in my past still plagues me internally. Attempting to overcome this, I am using peoples’ experiences with addiction, in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, to channel recollections of my past. This is an abstract representation of my experiences: searching through painful memories I long since buried and forgot among the wreckage I left behind not so long ago. The goal of this work is to rid myself of some of the demons that have bothered me for years, and emerge with a stronger sense of self.

Story

As a teenager, I was trapped in a cycle of drug addiction. This darkness in my past still plagues me internally. Attempting to overcome this, I am using peoples’ experiences with addiction, in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, to channel recollections of my past. This is an abstract representation of my experiences: searching through painful memories I long since buried and forgot among the wreckage I left behind not so long ago. The goal of this work is to rid myself of some of the demons that have bothered me for years, and emerge with a stronger sense of self. Multiple exposures are all in camera.

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