Eugene Richards
1.) Eugene Richards captures the drug scene in Brooklyn's Red Hook housing project beautifully in black and white. The black and white photography didn't really give the pictures any life, just like the drugs seen in the pictures took away the user's life. In the first picture, Richards is up close and personal with the users giving the reader a different perspective then shown on the news.
2.) In each picture I find it that Richards somehow captures life in a lifeless place. The kid helping his friend light the pipe in the first picture. A man being protective of his in the second. And a little child terrified as crack smoke fills his space, and possibly his life. The second picture also suggests how the people of Brooklyn's Red Hook housing project are trapped. Trapped by addiction.
3.) The choices Richards made when photographing this story was perfect. The black and white emphasized on how colorless these people's life's are due to drugs, and it also made it timeless as drug use or even addiction is part of our society we live in.
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