Jessica Dimmock (born June 23, 1978) is a documentary photojournalist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York City. Her body of work, The Ninth Floor, documented the lives of a group of young heroin users over the course of several years.
Education and career Dimmock is a 2005 graduate of the program in documentary photography and photojournalism at the International Center of Photography. She shoots regularly for the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Newsweek and other U.S. magazines. She has been profiled in New York magazine, Aperture, Photo District News, and the British Journal of Photography. She is a member of VII Photo Agency.
She began her "Ninth Floor" project in late 2004 in Manhattan. A drug dealer noticed her camera, approached her on the street, and invited her to take photographs of him. He led Dimmock to a building in the Flatiron District, where Dimmock spent eight months photographing the approximately 30 heroin addicts who shared an apartment. In June 2005, the owners of the apartment evicted the addicts, but Dimmock continued to photograph two of the couples for more than two years after the eviction. The project was published as a video and as a book in 2007.
Publications Publications by Dimmock The Ninth Floor. Rome: Contrasto, 2007.
Publications with contributions by Dimmock American Photography 22. AI-AP, 2006. Flash Forward. Toronto: Magenta Foundation, 2006. This Day of Change. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2009. A New American Photographic Dream. Milan: Silvana, 2010.
Films Jessica Dimmock: The Ninth Floor (2007) – video Paparazzi (2010) – short film Wait for Me (2011) – music video Without (2011) – documentary feature film, producer, cinematographer The Pearl - documentary feature; co-director, cinematographer The Convention – documentary short film; producer, director, cinematographer Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields - Netflix limited docuseries; director Captive Audience (2022) – docuseries; director Thoughts & Prayers (2025) - documentary feature film, director, producer Maternal Instinct (2026) – Netflix documentary; director
Exhibitions 2008: The Ninth Floor, Foley Gallery, New York City 2008: The Ninth Floor, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC 2008: Under Influence - Intoxication and Drugs in Contemporary Art (group show), Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany 2008: Dispatches From the Frontlines (group show), Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, New York 2008: The Ninth Floor, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam 2009: The Ninth Floor, Locuslux Gallery, Belgium 2009: The Ninth Floor, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2009: Viewing Restricted: [Re]presenting Poverty (group show), London School of Economics, London 2010: The Brothel Without Walls (group show), University of Toronto Art Centre for the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Toronto
Awards 2006: Magnum Photos' Inge Morath Award for Photojournalism 2006: F Award, Fabrica Forma Fotografia 2008: New York Photo Award in "multimedia photo/audio" category 2010: Finalist, Best Photography Book Award, Sixty-Seventh Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition 2016: Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature, Dallas International Film Festival, with Christopher LaMarca for The Pearl 2017: Third prize, Long Form category, World Press Photo, for The Convention
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