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“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.”

“The Day Shall Declare It" Downtown LA. 2015. Polaroid 2031.

“Really makes you wonder, what price do they put on me. The only time you stop is when the line stops. It just goes and goes and goes. I bet there’s men who have died, lived and died and never seen the end of that line. And they never will, because it’s endless. It’s like a serpent; it’s just all body, no tail.”

Annie Saunders /  Chris Polick