“MacIndoe’s extraordinary photographs create a portrait of what addiction feels like. They are raw, disturbing and important” The Scotsman Graham MacIndoe is a Scottish photographer based in New York. His series of self-portraits entitled Coming Clean, confronts his addiction to heroin in a group of photographs that are graphic, unflinching and powerful. Several years after beating his addiction, MacIndoe rediscovered the images and in 2015 a selection of prints was acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland. This is their first time on display. Image: Graham MacIndoe, Untitled from the series Coming Clean, negative: 2004-2010; printed 2015 © Graham MacIndoe
Most documentary projects about addiction expose someone else’s self-destructive behavior, but Graham MacIndoe took a very different approach: He photographed himself during the years he was addicted to drugs. He’d place a cheap digital camera [...]
“MacIndoe’s extraordinary photographs create a portrait of what addiction feels like. They are raw, disturbing and important” The Scotsman Graham MacIndoe is a Scottish photographer based in New York. His series of self-portraits entitled Coming Clean, confronts his addiction to heroin in a group of photographs that are graphic, unflinching and powerful. Several years after beating his addiction, MacIndoe rediscovered the images and in 2015 a selection of prints was acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland. This is their first time on display. Image: Graham MacIndoe, Untitled from the series Coming Clean, negative: 2004-2010; printed 2015 © Graham MacIndoe
A compelling and powerful series of photographs that document an acclaimed Scottish photographer’s devastating descent into drug addiction are to be given an exclusive first public showing this spr...
Most documentary projects about addiction expose someone else’s self-destructive behavior, but Graham MacIndoe took a very different approach: He photographed himself during the years he was addicted to drugs. He’d place a cheap digital camera [...]
I did not become someone differentI did not want to beBut I’m new hereWill you show me around? - Bill Callahan These lyrics, from blues writer Bill Callahan’s title track for Gil Scott-Heron’s last album I’m New Here (2010), come courtesy of Scots documentary photographer Sandy Carson. Carson left the UK as a young man. Settling in
Graham MacIndoe was a successful photographer, working for the Guardian's Weekend magazine among others. Then he began a destructive journey into heroin addiction – and turned the camera on himself. He and his partner Susan Stellin recall the road to recovery
A compelling and powerful series of photographs that document an acclaimed Scottish photographer’s devastating descent into drug addiction are to be given an exclusive first public showing this spr...
‘He was such a dandy. Drivers would honk at him, cabbies would wave – and homeless dudes would shout: Hey Quentin!’
Most documentary projects about addiction expose someone else’s self-destructive behavior, but Graham MacIndoe took a very different approach: He photographed himself during the years he was addicted to drugs. He’d place a cheap digital camera [...]
A compelling and powerful series of photographs that document an acclaimed Scottish photographer’s devastating descent into drug addiction are to be given an exclusive first public showing this spr...
The collection of glassine heroin bags in Graham MacIndoe's photos have been emptied of their product, removed from context and treated to professional studio lighting but are still total haunting.
A compelling and powerful series of photographs that document an acclaimed Scottish photographer’s devastating descent into drug addiction are to be given an exclusive first public showing this spr...
A compelling and powerful series of photographs that document an acclaimed Scottish photographer’s devastating descent into drug addiction are to be given an exclusive first public showing this spr...
As a young punk growing up in Broxburn, West Lothian, Graham MacIndoe started on his creative path studying painting at Edinburgh College of Art. That all
The collection of glassine heroin bags in Graham MacIndoe's photos have been emptied of their product, removed from context and treated to professional studio lighting but are still total haunting.
The collection of glassine heroin bags in Graham MacIndoe's photos have been emptied of their product, removed from context and treated to professional studio lighting but are still total haunting.
The collection of glassine heroin bags in Graham MacIndoe's photos have been emptied of their product, removed from context and treated to professional studio lighting but are still total haunting.
The collection of glassine heroin bags in Graham MacIndoe's photos have been emptied of their product, removed from context and treated to professional studio lighting but are still total haunting.
Most documentary projects about addiction expose someone else’s self-destructive behavior, but Graham MacIndoe took a very different approach: He photographed himself during the years he was addicted to drugs. He’d place a cheap digital camera [...]
The collection of glassine heroin bags in Graham MacIndoe's photos have been emptied of their product, removed from context and treated to professional studio lighting but are still total haunting.
The collection of glassine heroin bags in Graham MacIndoe's photos have been emptied of their product, removed from context and treated to professional studio lighting but are still total haunting.
