Good Sick

GOST BOOKSISBN: 9781910401194

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By Jordan Baumgarten
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GOST BOOKS
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HARDBACK
Dimensions:
292 x 224 mm
Weight:
700 g
Pages:
96

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Good Sick by Jordan Baumgarten is a photographic portrait of the US opioid crisis, shown through its effects on one neighbourhood in Philadelphia. The neighbourhood of Kensington is a nexus for those in and around the city seeking heroin and all that it entails. The supporting addiction based economy co-exists alongside everyday life in the neighbourhood and in its surrounding landscape there are signs and premonitions of disorder and confusion. The photographs in this book depict chaos; nature encroaching on urban decay; an ambiguity between magic and darkness; private moments which are public; animals and humans roam free--fuelled by id, and always, somewhere, there is a fire burning. The images in Good Sick are a small proportion of those taken by Baumgarten, a native of the city, between the winter of 2012 and the spring of 2017.

Baumgarten is a photographer and educator based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Photography from the University of the Arts.


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