January 14, 5:30 p.m. - Opening reception with Julia Karns.Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer- ethnographer Jeff Schonberg spent more than a decade among a community of heroin injectors and crack smokers who survive on the streets of San Francisco's former industrial neighborhoods. Their extensive research formed the subject of a provocative book, Righteous Dopefiend (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009), and now, an exhibition.More than forty black-and-white photographs are interwoven with edited transcriptions of tape-recorded conversations, field notes, and critical analysis to explore the intimate experience of homelessness and addiction.Revealing the survival mechanisms and perspectives of this marginalized "community of addicted bodies," the exhibition sheds light on the often unintended consequences of public policies that inadvertently exacerbate the suffering faced by street-based drug users in America.

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