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Live Through This
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"Live Through This" tells the story of drug addict Stephanie MacDonald's struggle to get clean. Typically a topic for documentary photographers pursuing reportage through candid shots, this project instead relies mostly on collaborative portraits, in which Tony Fouhse enlists MacDonald to sometimes mimic the conventions of documentary and anthropological photography.
The images of MacDonald, like the world she inhabits, are both banal and extraordinary, conveying psychological, and sometimes physiological, states with an affecting economy of detail.
The inclusion of medical documents and text by MacDonald, both written on scraps of paper and from later emails, provides the viewer with a broken and incomplete narrative that nonetheless directs our comprehension of Fouhse's disturbing but sympathetic photographs.
"Live Through This" tells the story of drug addict Stephanie MacDonald's struggle to get clean. Typically a topic for documentary photographers pursuing reportage through candid shots, this project instead relies mostly on collaborative portraits, in which Tony Fouhse enlists MacDonald to sometimes mimic the conventions of documentary and anthropological photography.
The images of MacDonald, like the world she inhabits, are both banal and extraordinary, conveying psychological, and sometimes physiological, states with an affecting economy of detail.
The inclusion of medical documents and text by MacDonald, both written on scraps of paper and from later emails, provides the viewer with a broken and incomplete narrative that nonetheless directs our comprehension of Fouhse's disturbing but sympathetic photographs.
72 pages, Softcover
Published January 1, 2012
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About the author
Tony Fouhse
4 books1 followerMore than 30 years it's been now, and Tony Fouhse still hasn't tired of shooting.
Fouhse is an editorial and commercial photographer. However, from time to time, after clearing his desk, he travels to carry out personal projects. In the last little while he's taken portraits down in Mississippi, Arkansas and New Jersey. These days Fouhse is achieving international attention and recognition for his compelling work that's closer to home, shots of Ottawa Lowertown addicts.
Every day Fouhse finds himself in a different situation. Different circumstances. No matter, he always throws himself into the experience.
Photos come out of this process. Convincing. Vigorous. Keen. Uncanny.
Fouhse is an editorial and commercial photographer. However, from time to time, after clearing his desk, he travels to carry out personal projects. In the last little while he's taken portraits down in Mississippi, Arkansas and New Jersey. These days Fouhse is achieving international attention and recognition for his compelling work that's closer to home, shots of Ottawa Lowertown addicts.
Every day Fouhse finds himself in a different situation. Different circumstances. No matter, he always throws himself into the experience.
Photos come out of this process. Convincing. Vigorous. Keen. Uncanny.
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