Addiction and reckoning

Addiction does not emerge in isolation. It is produced by trauma, by systemic neglect, by the inherited residues of pain. In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, lives marked by long-term substance use reveal the aftermath of abandonment.

This work uses multiple exposure (in-camera) to reflect the emotional and psychological fragmentation that follows trauma. The images do not depict resolution; they dwell in tension, between visibility and concealment, between the present body and the weight it carries.

The subject is not just the individual, but the forces around them: systems that criminalize, stigmatize, and isolate. Within that framework, the camera becomes a site not of judgment, but of reckoning.