Monday, January 23, 2012

Photographer #431: Darcy Padilla

Darcy Padilla, 1965, USA, is a photojournalist and documentary photographer. Her career as a freelance photographer started after completing 12 internships at daily newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Since then she covered stories in Cuba and Haiti, on Aids in Prison and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just to name a few. Her most acclaimed body of work is The Julie Project. This long-term project is the story of a woman called Julie Baird. Eighteen years Darcy followed and photographed the story of AIDS, drug abuse, abusive relationships, poverty and death. Julie died on September 27th, 2010 at the age of 36, after having lived a turbulant life in which she gave birth to six children of whom the first five were taken away from her. It is an impressive, heartbreaking project with a dramatic, yet expected ending. The series rightfully received the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography in 2010. Amongst other awards for her work is the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the work she did photographing residents of transient hotels in one of the poorest neighborhoods in San Francisco. All of the following images are from The Julie Project.




Website: www.darcypadilla.com

4 comments:

megan kathleen mcisaac said...

wow, definitely breathtaking. her photographs and the video in general have me at tears at 11 o'clock in the morning. thank you for sharing.

iO Tillett Wright said...

This work is incredible. GIves Anders Petersen a run for his money. THe last ten seconds of the video whipped the tears out of me too.

Unknown said...

very strong lifes...good work!

Daniel Regan said...

My goodness. Some of the most breathtaking photos I have seen in a long time. Left me with goosebumps.