Jessica Dimmock

{{Short description|American photographer}}

Jessica Dimmock (born June 23, 1978){{citation | title=Flash Forward 2006: Emerging Photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States| url=http://www.magentafoundation.org/books/flash-forward-2006/flash_forward-2006.pdf|access-date=2012-07-31}} is a documentary photojournalist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York City. Her body of work, The Ninth Floor, documented the lives of a group of young heroin users over the course of several years.

Education and career

Dimmock is a 2005 graduate of the program in documentary photography and photojournalism at the International Center of Photography.{{cite news | title=The Runners-Up | author=Clinton Cargill| newspaper =New York Times | date= September 11, 2005| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/11RUNNERSUP.html | access-date=2012-07-31 }} She shoots regularly for the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Newsweek and other U.S. magazines. She has been profiled in New York magazine, Aperture, Photo District News, and the British Journal of Photography.{{citation | author = Colin Moynihan | title=The Heroin Den Next Door: Eight months in a Flatiron shooting gallery| url= http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/14500/|journal = New York | date= September 18, 2005 | access-date=2012-07-31 }}{{citation | author = Joshua Mack| title= The Ninth Floor: Photographs by Jessica Dimmock|journal = Aperture | date= Winter 2006|pages=78–83|volume=185 }}{{citation | author = Daryl Lang| title= Jessica Dimmock Wins Inge Morath Prize, F Award|journal = Photo District News | date= July 13, 2006}}{{citation|title=Stills to Motion: Jessica Dimmock |url=http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2103554/stills-motion-jessica-dimmock |journal=British Journal of Photography |date=February 1, 2011 |access-date=2012-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307034243/http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2103554/stills-motion-jessica-dimmock |archive-date=March 7, 2012 }} She is a member of VII Photo Agency.{{citation|title=About VII Photo Agency |publisher=VII Photo Agency |url=http://www.viiphoto.com/photographer.html |access-date=2012-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723041558/http://www.viiphoto.com/photographer.html |archive-date=2012-07-23 }}

She began her "Ninth Floor" project in late 2004 in Manhattan.{{citation | title=Jessica Dimmock in New York| author=Robert Ayers| publisher=ARTINFO | date= April 24, 2008| url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27441/jessica-dimmock-in-new-york/| access-date=2012-07-31 }} A drug dealer noticed her camera, approached her on the street, and invited her to take photographs of him. He led Dimmock to a building in the Flatiron District, where Dimmock spent eight months photographing the approximately 30 heroin addicts who shared an apartment. In June 2005, the owners of the apartment evicted the addicts, but Dimmock continued to photograph two of the couples for more than two years after the eviction.{{citation | author = Dylan Foley | title= Hell on 23rd Street: They Slowly Kill Themselves as Manhattan Bustles On | url= http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/item_GBKKFJOFUI9pOYC6k0RMRK |newspaper = New York Post| date= November 11, 2007| access-date=2012-07-31 }} The project was published as a video and as a book in 2007.{{citation | title= Jessica Dimmock: The Ninth Floor | publisher= MediaStorm | url= http://mediastorm.com/publication/the-ninth-floor | access-date=2012-07-31 }}{{cite book | last = Dimmock | first = Jessica | title = The Ninth Floor | publisher = Contrasto | location = Rome | year = 2007 | isbn = 9788869650598 }}

Publications

=Publications by Dimmock=

  • The Ninth Floor. Rome: Contrasto, 2007.

=Publications with contributions by Dimmock=

  • American Photography 22. AI-AP, 2006.{{citation | title=The Archive. AP| url=http://www.ai-ap.com/archive/AP/|publisher=American Illustration - American Photography|access-date=2012-07-31}}
  • Flash Forward. Toronto: Magenta Foundation, 2006.
  • This Day of Change. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2009.{{citation | title=This Day of Change: Jessica Dimmock / Washington, DC, USA | publisher=Kodansha | url=http://courrierjp.com/120/eng/#/040/0 | access-date=2012-07-31 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018124558/http://courrierjp.com/120/eng/#/040/0 | archive-date=2011-10-18 | url-status=dead }}
  • A New American Photographic Dream. Milan: Silvana, 2010.

Films

  • Jessica Dimmock: The Ninth Floor (2007) – video
  • Paparazzi (2010) – short film{{citation|author=Jessica Dimmock |title=Paparazzi: A Film by Jessica Dimmock |url=http://www.viistories.com/the-videos/paparazzi-a-film-by-jessica-dimmock.aspx |journal=VII the Magazine |publisher=VII Photo Agency |date=March 22, 2010 |access-date=2012-07-31 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101062419/http://www.viistories.com/the-videos/paparazzi-a-film-by-jessica-dimmock.aspx |archive-date=January 1, 2013 }}
  • Wait for Me (2011) – music video{{citation | author = Edith Zimmerman| title= See Moby's Hypnotically Grim New Music Video | url= http://www.vulture.com/2010/02/see_mobys_hypnotic_grim_new_mu.html |publisher = Vulture | date=February 22, 2010 | access-date=2012-07-31 }}
  • Without (2011) – documentary feature film, producer, cinematographer
  • The Pearl - documentary feature; co-director, cinematographer
  • The Convention – documentary short film; producer, director, cinematographer
  • Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields - Netflix limited docuseries; director

Exhibitions

  • 2008: The Ninth Floor, Foley Gallery, New York City{{citation|title=Jessica Dimmock: The Ninth Floor: April 17 - May 31, 2008 |publisher=Foley Gallery |url=http://foleygallery.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_past_ins.php3?exhib=37&press=i |access-date=2012-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602212227/http://www.foleygallery.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_past_ins.php3?exhib=37 |archive-date=June 2, 2008 }}
  • 2008: The Ninth Floor, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC{{citation | title= Rooms With a View Of Addiction's Toll| newspaper= Washington Post | url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/style/studio/072008.html |date= July 20, 2008| author= Blake Gopnik|access-date=2012-07-31 }}
  • 2008: Under Influence - Intoxication and Drugs in Contemporary Art (group show), Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany{{citation|title=022_Jessica Dimmock "The Ninth Floor" 2004-2007 |publisher=Kunsthaus Dresden |url=http://www.kunsthausdresden.de/ausstellungen/bilderframeindex.php?ausstellung=81&bild=598&source=khdweb&lang=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130206201736/http://www.kunsthausdresden.de/ausstellungen/bilderframeindex.php?ausstellung=81&bild=598&source=khdweb&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-06 |access-date=2012-07-31 }}
  • 2008: Dispatches From the Frontlines (group show), Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, New York{{citation | title= Dispatches from the Frontlines {12 Women Photojournalists} June 14 to August 3, 2008| publisher= Fovea Exhibitions | url= http://www.foveaexhibitions.org/reading/FrontlinesFurtherReading.pdf| access-date=2012-07-31 }}
  • 2008: The Ninth Floor, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam{{citation|title=Jessica Dimmock: The Ninth Floor: 14 March - 1 June 2008 |publisher=Foam Amsterdam |url=http://foam.org/foam-amsterdam/calendar/2008-exhibitions/dimmock,-jessica-%E2%80%93-the-ninth-floor |access-date=2012-07-31 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • 2009: The Ninth Floor, Locuslux Gallery, Belgium{{citation|title=Jessica Dimmock – The Ninth Floor |url=http://www.locuslux.com/upload/0254-pdf-the-ninth-floor-press-release-eng-final-ii-.pdf |date=January 30 – March 8, 2009 |publisher=Locuslux Gallery |access-date=2012-07-31 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • 2009: The Ninth Floor, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam{{citation| title=The Ninth Floor| url=http://www.idfa.nl/nl/tags/project.aspx?id=67da2da0-aabe-4593-b444-5ed609d6a72d| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130223064649/http://www.idfa.nl/nl/tags/project.aspx?id=67da2da0-aabe-4593-b444-5ed609d6a72d| url-status=dead| archive-date=2013-02-23| publisher=International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam| access-date=2012-07-31}}
  • 2009: Viewing Restricted: [Re]presenting Poverty (group show), London School of Economics, London{{citation | title=Viewing restricted: [Re]presenting poverty: 27 April -14 June 2009| publisher = London School of Economics }}
  • 2010: The Brothel Without Walls (group show), University of Toronto Art Centre for the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Toronto{{citation | title=The Brothel Without Walls| url= http://2010.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/182 |publisher = Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival | access-date=2012-07-31 }}

Awards

  • 2006: Magnum Photos' Inge Morath Award for Photojournalism{{citation|title=Jessica Dimmock (USA): The Ninth Floor |url=http://www.ingemorath.org/index.php/2010/05/jessica-dimmock-usa-2/ |publisher=Inge Morath Foundation |access-date=2012-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126092221/http://www.ingemorath.org/index.php/2010/05/jessica-dimmock-usa-2/ |archive-date=2013-01-26 }}
  • 2006: F Award, Fabrica Forma Fotografia
  • 2008: New York Photo Award in "multimedia photo/audio" category{{citation | author = Daryl Lang| title= New York Photo Awards Winners Announced |journal = Photo District News | date= May 16, 2008}}
  • 2010: Finalist, Best Photography Book Award, Sixty-Seventh Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition{{citation | title=Winners Gallery: Best Photography Book Award: Finalist: Jessica Dimmock, Contrasto: "The Ninth Floor" | url= http://www.poyi.org/67/BestPhotographyBookAward/f07.php |publisher = Pictures Of The Year International | access-date=2012-07-31 }}
  • 2016: Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature, Dallas International Film Festival, with Christopher LaMarca for The Pearl{{cite news|access-date=2018-06-26|title=2016 Dallas International Film Festival Award Winners|url=http://seligfilmnews.com/2016-dallas-international-film-festival-award-winners/|newspaper=Selig Film News|date=25 April 2016}}
  • 2017: Third prize, Long Form category, World Press Photo, for The Convention{{cite news|access-date=2018-06-26|title=The Convention|url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/multimedia/2017/long-form/the-convention|newspaper=World Press Photo|archive-date=2018-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626111153/https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/multimedia/2017/long-form/the-convention|url-status=dead}}

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