Photos by Paul D’Amato
In an experimental photography publication run by Romke Hoogwaerts and Grace Leigh, who partnered with Mossless Magazine, is a creative column titled Mossless in America, featuring interviews with various documentary photographers from around the United States. Amongst those photographers is Paul D’Amato, who has been documenting dramas in the everyday lives of ordinary people for more than two decades. Born in Boston, D’Amato has gone across the country hitchhiking and hopping freight trains to achieve the work he has. After years of moving around he ended up in to Chicago, where he discovered communities like Pilsen and Little Village, which are where most of his featured photography in Mossless was taken.
In an inclusive interview with VICE, D’Amato speaks in detail about these photos, in addition to the new series he is currently photographing on the west side of Chicago, which is called HereStillNow. The photos are raw and powerful, and a perfect example to the type of documentary photography used in Mossless Magazine. Be sure to check out it’s third issue to be published this spring, titled The United States (2003–2013). And be sure to see more of Paul D’Amato’s work here.
[Via VICE]
