The writings of Jim Janas — “Jimmy j” — Detroit, 2000–2010
Photographs
Sometimes words aren't enough. Pictures of the ghetto offer the visual truth to what you will NEVER see in the media. Take a look at the square around Jimmy's business and see what he sees and writes about. Shattered homes, abandoned businesses, tires everywhere, fields of overgrowth hiding the rubble of burned homes. Can anyone rise above this to live a "normal" life free of the threats of the failure around them?
— Jim’s introduction to the Picture Page, 2001. 33 of his photographs survived in the archive.
