Jonah Mullins Photography
Shooting at the Speed of Life
Current Projects
In addition to portraiture, at my core I am passionate about art. To me, the intersection between beauty and vulnerability is a place that can create beautiful, and meaningful moments. For me, there are issues that we face as individuals and a society that are hard to put into words. As a neurodivergent, recovering addict, and survivor of emotional and physical abuse, these stories are not simply projects, but they are personal.
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The three projects each represent a different theme. My aim is to help individuals tell their stories to the world. By photographing these moments while sitting down with the subjects, my hope is to portray the authentic self. To give them a space to feel safe enough to be vulnerable in word and picture and to give them an outlet to tell their story.
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These shoots, these interviews, and this project are ever evolving. Check back to see more updated work as I will be uploading them as they occur.
My name is Jonah, and I am an addict. In addition to being a person in recovery, I spent twenty years working in the field of Substance Abuse and Recovery. As a therapist, I heard my story, the story of friends and loved ones, told thousands of times, just from different faces. Each of our journey's is as unique as we are, and we come to our recovery in a hundred different ways.
When shooting this project, I made the decision to shoot in black and white for the majority of it. However, I wanted the last portrait of the shoot to be in color. A representation of our healing and reclamation of our life. For me, this project is about sharing stories of hope and survival...but also, to give a voice to those sick and suffering addicts and alcoholics who lost their life in the battle against this disease.
This project is dedicated to all our fellow addicts and alcoholics who never got the chance to see their portrait in color.
