Photograph by Eugene Richards

Image Title: Waking up, Williston, North Dakota, 2012

Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 23 2/5"

Medium: Digital Inkjet Print

Year Created: 2012

Signed on recto

Image Description:

Janice and her husband came to North Dakota looking for work and a better life during the oil boom in 2012. They slept in their car in the parking lot of a church in Williston.

Photographer's Bio:

Eugene Richards is a photographer, writer and filmmaker who has authored 17 books. His first publication, Few Comforts or Surprises (1973), which speaks of the lives of sharecroppers in the Arkansas Delta, was followed by Dorchester Days (1978), a portrait of the inner-city neighborhood where he was raised. Subsequent books include Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue (1994), a study of the impact of hardcore drugs on inner city communities; The Blue Room (2008), a study in color of abandoned houses across rural America; and War Is Personal (2010), a documentation of the consequences of the Iraq war. Recent books include Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down (2014), which contrasts life in the Arkansas Delta decades ago and today; and The Run-On of Time (2017), a career retrospective of his photographic work.

Richards has filmed and directed a half dozen short documentary films. His most recent, Thy Kingdom Come (2018), premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and is being distributed by Grasshopper Film.

Among numerous honors, Richards has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for Photographic Innovation, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.

www.eugenerichards.com

http://grasshopperfilm.com/film/thy-kingdom-come/