Bruce gilden portraits

Bruce Gilden captured striking and harrowing portraits of prostitutes for his new collection Only God Can Judge Me. They told him stories of being set on fire and getting hooked on drugs.

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A new series of portraits by photographer Bruce Gilden

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By Charles Desmarais June 22, 2018 (SFChronicle.com) “Dewayn, Des Moines, Iowa, USA” (2014) Photo: Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos 2014 “Lulu and Daniel, Jackson, Mississippi, USA” (2014) is by Bruce Gilden. Photo: Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos “Pat, Nanakuli, Hawaii, USA” (2016) is by Bruce Gilden. Photo: Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos In this scene from … Continue reading Bruce Gilden’s grotesques at Pier 24 Photography →

Bruce Gilden

“They’re my friends for twenty minutes,” says New York City-based photographer Bruce Gilden of the personalities that together make up his newest book Face. Over the past few years, he has collected the countenances of those who spend their lives overlooked and unseen in crowds, visages that when scrutinized, slip from the familiar and banal and over—ever so slightly—into the extraordinary.

The photographer has always been attracted to what he calls ‘characters’: the people who have been battered and bruised by life. But his new book, Face, takes a cruel obsession too far