Jessica Dimmock

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Jessica Dimmock (born June 23, 1978) [1] 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.

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Education and career

Dimmock is a 2005 graduate of the program in documentary photography and photojournalism at the International Center of Photography. [2] She shoots regularly for the New York Times Magazine , Fortune , Newsweek and other U.S. magazines. She has been profiled in New York magazine, Aperture , Photo District News , and the British Journal of Photography . [3] [4] [5] [6] She is a member of VII Photo Agency. [7]

She began her "Ninth Floor" project in late 2004 in Manhattan. [8] A drug dealer noticed her camera, approached her on the street, and invited her to take photographs of him. [4] He led Dimmock to a building in the Flatiron District, where Dimmock spent eight months photographing the approximately 30 heroin addicts who shared an apartment. [3] [4] In June 2005, the owners of the apartment evicted the addicts, but Dimmock continued to photograph two of the couples for more than two years after the eviction. [3] [9] The project was published as a video and as a book in 2007. [10] [11]

Publications

Publications by Dimmock

Publications with contributions by Dimmock

Films

Exhibitions

Awards

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