Ash Wendnesday, New Oreans
Alec Soth Current The subject was my girlfriend

The subject was my girlfriend

Provenance : Chris Shaw

In that year I used only Fuji 1600 color negative film

an ice addict prostitute who will die soon

Ash Wendnesday, New Oreans<br />Alec Soth Current The subject was my girlfriendI went to New Oreleans for Mardi Gras but couldn't handle all of the communal joy. I decided to spend Fat Tuesday alone in my hotel room watching TV. I left the room for the midnight police sweep of Bourbon street,the official end of Mardi Gras then photographed the aftermath. Ten years ago I photographed Adelyn on the morning after Mardi Gras."Just cigarette ashes," she'd told me. Adelyn agreed to meet me again outside of St. Louis Cathedral. On the