Lost: A Portrait of Addiction

Addiction could be called a plague. It blights the land. It ravages lives. Flyers for the missing ask, “Have You Seen Me?” The toll it takes is devastating. lt is visible night and day. In Philadelphia, the poorest of our nation’s largest cities, the plague has worsened. It is more out of control now. Ten years ago, one man on Kensington Avenue remarked, “I would call this the suffering, the suffering. The only hope I see is that people get to Heaven when they die.”

Virginia Allyn

Virginia Allyn spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area where she started in the mid 1990’s telling stories with her camera. She worked in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and later moved to New York City where she continues doing street photography, looking for stories she wishes to tell.