The man he stabbed was not seriously injured.
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Between 20, while awaiting trial for aggravated assault, David was repeatedly locked up for parole violations-either failure to check in with his parole officer or a dirty urine analysis.Īfter one-month, Vinny was released. David was locked up, in the local county jail. One of the reasons Vinny was compelled to defend his mother was David’s absence. What I had learned about Vinny and David’s brotherly relationship intrigued me, and I knew that in order to document Vinny’s life, I had to include David.” “He spoke extensively about his relationship with his older brother,” says Kosofsky, “particularly talking about wanting his brother’s attention.
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Though young, Vinny was full of wisdom and sensitivity. Once he took his seat, Kosofsky introduced herself and listened. Vinny, aged 13, had just been arrested for stabbing a man who was assaulting his mother, Eve. The long association began one evening in 2012 in the juvenile detention center in Albuquerque. The relationships are more important to me than the actual image making,” she says. “I must share in my subjects’ struggles over a sustained period of time in order to forge a bond. At aged 24, she been documenting Vinny and David for nearly a quarter of her life. Sometimes those friendships develop into a long-term project, sometimes not.
She consciously develops friendships first. “You’ve taken the pictures that show what we are feeling inside,” says David. Isadora Kosofsky has been photographing the siblings and their family for five years. They have both been incarcerated but their lives are more than the prisons, poverty and addictions that have inundated their young lives. Growing up with near absent fathers and a loving but struggling mother, Vinny and David came to rely on, and love, one another. Vinny and Davidis a story about two brothers coming of age in New Mexico. This article was originally published as Vinny: David, Mon Frere, in French translation in Polka, Issue 39.
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