Mossless in America: Documentary Photos by Paul D'Amato
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.
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[Video] Z Money: "Ignorant"
Chicago's West Side produced one of the city's quickest-rising stars last summer when local artist Z Money dropped a pair of mixtapes, Rich B4 Rap and Heroin Musik that took the underground hip-hop scene by storm and placed the 20-year-old restauranteur firmly in line as the next thing to blow from the Windy City. Currently preparing to up the ante on his dual release, Z Money is currently hard at work in the studio preparing to release a trio of projects simultaneously, while also getting ready to travel south to Austin for SXSW. As part of all that preparation, the relative newcomer dropped the APJ Films-directed video for his track, "Ignorant" which features Z rocking a Michael Jackson-esque red leather jacket. While not the most visually-striking video to release lately, Z Money certainly knows how to stay in the news cycle. Check out the latest, streaming below.
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