Isadora Kosofsky is a Los Angeles-based documentary photographer. Yet change may, at this point, seem more daunting than remaining in a comfortable chaos. David struggles as he attempts to abandon dealing drugs, wishing to give Felicia, Lily and infant Mary Jane “everything always wanted… the whole cycle”. Incarceration is a solitary and collective experience that leaves profound psychological effects, as it has on Vinny and David’s development. Powerless to intervene, Eve and David’s girlfriend wait hours for his phone calls, aching for legal decisions and release, sometimes with an unknown date. When one member is incarcerated, the whole family is too.
Just as Vinny’s absence impacts the family, David’s incarcerations leave the family in a culture of loss. Shortly after Vinny’s release, the court ordered that live with his paternal aunt, three hours from his family in Albuquerque. Vinny describes David as a father figure, and David views Vinny as the only person who appreciates him. They confide in each other, often walking together or riding in David’s car. In the midst of turmoil, Vinny and David try to embrace their youth. David and Vinny have grown up in an environment of loss and yet yearn for love and a restored family. After his father went to prison, David spent time in and out of the foster care eventually, at 14, David’s mother, Eve, was given custody. David, who was introduced to drug dealing at age 10, has been in and out of juvenile and adult correctional systems. I’m tired of seeing my mom get hurt.” While in juvenile detention, Vinny’s older brother, David, age 19, is incarcerated in an adult facility. Vinny confides, “When my mom was being beat up, I was so scared.
I want to spend the night on the moon.” Vinny, just 13, shares his thoughts sitting in a juvenile detention center in New Mexico. I love my older brother more than anybody in the world.
Vinny and David begins with Vinny, then 13, when he was incarcerated for stabbing his mother’s assailant, and shadows him and his older brother, David the long-term photo essay focuses on the brothers’ lives in their family and community over four years in New Mexico.
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