Chicago Lights, an audio/visual show celebrating 81 Chicagoans
I arrived with my family in Chicago in 2015 and it was during that year that the concept of Chicago Lights was born (see Chicago Lights the Background for how it all began). Here you can see the 81 people featured in my show. They are a wide-ranging and impressive group of characters who contribute to the immense diversity, richness and originality of Chicago’s landscape. As I photographed each person in a place of their choosing, I also interviewed them, with the aim of finding out more about Chicagoans in order to discover the common thread that links us all.
Some of the many topics covered in these raw, authentic and extremely honest interviews include love, mothering, body issues, politics, gender, food, relationships, poverty, spirituality and everything in between. I edited these interviews down to one minute sound bites for the show, which you can hear by pressing the play button that shows up on each image as you click on it. There is a small time lag of 4 seconds so please be patient. More sound excerpts can be heard here on soundcloud.

Sarah Raskey

Duchess Darling Shear

Jesse White

Jo Jo Baby

Anthony Moseley

Amee Binder

Zhou Brothers

Jaime Laurita

Curtis Duffy

Kathleen Henson

Candace Jordan

Laura Mae Noble

Gavin Wilkinson

Jules Mauro

Eli Wilson

Kara Bachman

Father Pfleger

Kiara Lanier

Juliana Stratton

Matt Flanagan

Beverly Tarr

Carina Shero

Essence Walker

Tarrah Cooper

Joe George

Susan A. Lipshutz, LCSW

Jason Chan

Trisha Rooney

Monica Eng

Glen Joffe and Claudia Morgan

Jennifer Reeder

Mary Carter

Ken Bennett

Daniel Kyri

Ben Mackey

Jessica Egan

Liz Dozier

Israel Idonije

Darra

Kirsten Stickney

Mark McGreevy

Don Gibson

Arloa Sutter

Jennica Owens

Nora Flanagan

Christopher Keogh

Sophia Kravets

Bea Cordelia

Erika Orr

Anadil Johnson

Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Jeanne Malnati

Aymar Jean Christian

Kyle Sanders

Theri Raby, MD

Giordano Dance Company

Nan Giordano

Giordano Dance Company

Joon Lee

Izabel Olson

C M Punk

Lauren F Streicher, MD

Steven Dyme

Chrissy Stephens

Bianca Smith

Anna Valencia

Madison Mattox

Bruno Abate

Tiffany Woodward

Ivana Taylor

Brian Cole

Naaman Gambill

Thomas Kerwin

Curt Bailey

Jason Brett

Tim Kazurinsky

Victor Saad

Astera Manis

Bela Gandhi
