Jessica Dimmock

Jessica Dimmock (born June 23, 1978) is a documentary photojournalist based in Brooklyn, New York City. Her most well-known body of work, The Ninth Floor, documented the lives of a group of young heroin users over the course of several years.

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 by Dimmock

• 2007: The Ninth Floor. Rome: Contrasto.

Publications by with contributions by Dimmock

• 2006: Flash Forward. Toronto: Magenta Foundation.
• 2006: American Photography 22.
• 2009: This Day of Change. Tokyo: Kodansha.
• 2010: A New American Photographic Dream. Milan: Silvana.

• 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

• 2007: Jessica Dimmock: The Ninth Floor (video)
• 2010: Paparazzi (short film)
• 2011: Wait for Me (music video)
• 2011: Without (feature film)

• 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