Images by Juliana Beasley (Lightstalkers) http://www.lightstalkers.org/julianabeasley Juliana Beasley graduated from the Photography Department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1990. She began her photographic career by working in a number industry-related jobs (assisting, lighting, studio managing), including working as a printer for Annie Leibovitz's project on the Mark Morris Dance Company. In 1992, she resided in Albania and completed a photographic report on Albanian child-laborers. A year later she did a follow up on the hardships of Albanian immigrants residing and working in Italy under servile conditions of which was published in The Christian Science Monitor in the United States. The same year, she also began an eight-year photo/text essay on the interpersonal relationships between customer and dancers within the club milieu. Lapdancer was published by powerHouse Books in 2003 and was well received and widely reviewed nationally and internationally in such magazines as The New Yorker. Picture Magazine, and the on-line magazine, MSN Slate. In 2004, Lapdancer was presented the opening show of powerHouse Books Gallery. In the fall of 2005, Ms. Beasley had a one women show of Lapdancer and selections from her latest book project about a community struggling with mental illness and substance abuse in Rockaway Beach, New York City at the documentary gallery, Galleri Kontrast . She is the third place winner of the 2006 Camera Club award juried by Antonin Kratochvil and her work can be viewed on pH Gallery on-line in the fall of 2006. Ms. Beasley’s work has been published in the Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, Max Magazine in Germany, de L’Air in France amongst many other international and national magazines. Ms. Beasley's work is represented by Contact Press Images. en-us <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/624109/Church-PreacherFamily_NS_d_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624109'></a> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:07:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624109 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/624106/Church-Met_sFan_NS_D_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624106'></a> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:51:05 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624106 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/624103/Church-Flip_NS_D_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624103'></a> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:50:54 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624103 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/624100/Church-Charlie_NS_D_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624100'></a> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:50:45 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624100 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/624097/Church-Charles_NS_D_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624097'></a> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:50:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/624097 Isabelle lives with a roommate in a adult home. Despite the depressing conditions of living in a city home, Isabelle is a bundile of inspiration and energy. Living in a adult home versus a nursing home means that the residents have the freedom to leave the premises. Isabelle explains to me that the majority of the residents drink alcohol--including herself- to escape the boredom and misery of institionalized living. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/505320/035_small.jpg' /><br />Isabelle lives with a roommate in a adult home. Despite the depressing conditions of living in a city home, Isabelle is a bundile of inspiration and energy. Living in a adult home versus a nursing home means that the residents have the freedom to leave the premises. Isabelle explains to me that the majority of the residents drink alcohol--including herself- to escape the boredom and misery of institionalized living.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/505320'>Isabelle lives with a roommate in a adult home. Despite the depressing conditions of living in a city home, Isabelle is a bundile of inspiration and energy. Living in a adult home versus a nursing home means that the residents have the freedom to leave the premises. Isabelle explains to me that the majority of the residents drink alcohol--including herself- to escape the boredom and misery of institionalized living.</a> Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:33:42 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/505320 A painting of the infamous American icon, Miss Reingold furnishes a local pub. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/187436/002_small.jpg' /><br />A painting of the infamous American icon, Miss Reingold furnishes a local pub.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187436'>A painting of the infamous American icon, Miss Reingold furnishes a local pub.</a> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:49:50 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187436 The outside of Paddy's home is in shambles as is the interior. Paddy inherited the home from his mother. Now the home has become a boarding house of disaray rented out into three separate apartments. All of the tenants including Paddy struggle with alcoholism. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/187439/009_small.jpg' /><br />The outside of Paddy's home is in shambles as is the interior. Paddy inherited the home from his mother. Now the home has become a boarding house of disaray rented out into three separate apartments. All of the tenants including Paddy struggle with alcoholism.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187439'>The outside of Paddy's home is in shambles as is the interior. Paddy inherited the home from his mother. Now the home has become a boarding house of disaray rented out into three separate apartments. All of the tenants including Paddy struggle with alcoholism.</a> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:49:50 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187439 Frieda was a local at the Palm Garden Pub. She lived in a adult home nearby and took a car service to come out and drink the night away. Often she returned to the home drunk and was transferred to the mental hospital. She died in 2005. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/187442/005_small.jpg' /><br />Frieda was a local at the Palm Garden Pub. She lived in a adult home nearby and took a car service to come out and drink the night away. Often she returned to the home drunk and was transferred to the mental hospital. She died in 2005.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187442'>Frieda was a local at the Palm Garden Pub. She lived in a adult home nearby and took a car service to come out and drink the night away. Often she returned to the home drunk and was transferred to the mental hospital. She died in 2005.</a> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:49:50 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187442 Seamus, the young boy who lives in an apartment in a boarding house with his alcoholic parents takes a moment to play in a chair, standing on his head. The chair belongs to Paddy, in the landlord's first floor apartment. Seamus spends much of his time playing alone in Paddy's living room. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/187445/016_small.jpg' /><br />Seamus, the young boy who lives in an apartment in a boarding house with his alcoholic parents takes a moment to play in a chair, standing on his head. The chair belongs to Paddy, in the landlord's first floor apartment. Seamus spends much of his time playing alone in Paddy's living room.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187445'>Seamus, the young boy who lives in an apartment in a boarding house with his alcoholic parents takes a moment to play in a chair, standing on his head. The chair belongs to Paddy, in the landlord's first floor apartment. Seamus spends much of his time playing alone in Paddy's living room.</a> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:49:50 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/187445