Current Tonight | September 22, 2009 | 4 comments

My Brother’s Keeper: Pictures of My Brother’s Life of Addiction

source: http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/my-brothers-keeper-pictures-of-my-brothers-life-...

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Photographer Joason Flori’s brother is both a heroin addict and a working parent. Florio’s series of pictures captures his brother’s life over 10 years of addiction. As Florio states, “This work is my first attempt to confront a subject that I cannot walk away from....In a sense, his story is common, but I wanted to portray his addiction uniquely. Addicts are often depicted as being poor, undereducated, unemployed, marginalized “losers,” or rock stars succumbing to the pressures of fame.”

“He is in a sense a “functioning” addict, in that he works his life around the continual need to “score” daily whilst being a working parent. The images of him are [from] over nearly a decade and present him in a number of ways. We are all individually multiple; the faces he presents can be at moments so tender and at other times horrifying to witness.”

This piece includes a number of engaging color photographs, as well as a remarkable slide show of additional emotionally moving photographs.
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