Jacs Fishburne. Downtown LA. 2015. Leica M6 186.
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“The Day Shall Declare It" Downtown LA. 2015. Polaroid 2034. (by dtwoods)
“The Day Shall Declare It” Downtown LA. 2015. Polaroid 2032.
“It’s a strange atmosphere. You come into contact with at least 35 an hour. You can’t exchange any ideas with them. They don’t know you, they never will. You’re kind of detached. You feel like they put a coin in the machine and they’ve got you. You’re there to perform your service and go. They are paying for something else. They are paying to act out a fantasy or they are paying for companionship or they are paying to be seen… Or they are paying for somebody to listen to them. They are paying for a lot of things.”
“The Day Shall Declare It” Downtown LA. 2015. Polaroid 2033.
“It’s a process of numbing yourself. In the beginning I found it very exciting. But then in order to continue I had to turn myself off. I had to disassociate who I was from what I was doing. And then after a while I found that I couldn’t turn myself back on.”
“Aw, you know how it is. Other guys, they eat, they drink, they sleep with their women, the sun keeps rising and Saturday night they get paid. Ok, ok, sooner or later they kick off, they got kids to take their place. Eat, drink, sleep with their women, get paid Saturday night. But me, my God, Jane, I want something more than just that.”
“The Day Shall Declare It”
“I feel like I can’t breathe. It keeps me awake. (pause) People will say you’re not like the other boys. It goes on night after night. I don’t sleep. I just lie there with that feeling inside me like a chest full of feathers. Take your place in the world. I need something that’ll help, that’ll get me some sleep. Grow up. Do you understand? I can’t go on like this, just lying there night after night looking up at the ceiling and expecting.”
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