JP Coakley

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Film Portraits

Portraits on 35mm film, February 2003 to June 2005, most of them made in Cleveland.

  1. 2003
  2. 2004
  3. 2005

2003

Cleveland, Philadelphia

A young man with dark hair, a mustache and thick black glasses looks calmly at the camera against a tiled wall.
A young man in wire-rimmed glasses tilts his head and rests a hand by his ear, gazing into the lens against a pale wall. A young man in glasses reclines on a couch laughing while friends beside him read and talk.
Two young men in glasses lean head to head, one staring wide-eyed into the lens while the other looks down. A young man with tousled hair rests his chin on a wooden edge and looks straight into the lens. A woman with her hair pulled back laughs and looks over her shoulder beside a bright window.

2004

Philadelphia, Cleveland Heights, Cleveland, New York City

Two young men in glasses, one in a knit cap and one in a red ball cap, look upward on a rainy South Philadelphia street corner lined with cheesesteak signs.
A man with braided cornrows ending in small curls is seen in strict profile against a pale wall. A young man with shaggy bangs and painted tear streaks under his eyes stares at the camera, a plaid cloth knotted around his shoulders. A young woman with a glossy bowl haircut and a studded collar stares straight at the camera against a white wall, wearing a torn T-shirt with gothic lettering. A man with wild curly hair and a full beard looks straight into the camera against a plain white wall.
A young man with dark swept bangs, a hoodie and a work jacket gives the camera a steady, serious look. Two young women sit side by side against a white wall, one in a striped shirt and one in glasses, both looking steadily at the camera. A young man with long hair and heavy glasses stands in a cluttered kitchen by a refrigerator covered in comics, holding a bottle and wearing a yellow T-shirt. A young woman with a dark, choppy bob, a small flower clip and a lip piercing looks straight at the camera against a white sheet.
A young woman with short cropped dark hair and large patterned hoop earrings gives a calm, direct gaze against a white backdrop. A young man with short light hair and wide pale eyes looks straight at the camera, his shadow falling on the sheet behind him.
A person in a black knit balaclava peers wide-eyed through the eye holes against a white wall. A young woman with shoulder-length dreadlocks framing her face looks steadily at the camera, a hard shadow on the wall behind her.
A young man with thick wavy hair and sideburns, in a white shirt and striped tie, gives the camera a stern, direct gaze. A young woman with a dark bob and heavy eyeliner stares straight at the camera against a pale wall.
A young man in glasses and a dark T-shirt sits on a bed by a bright window, glancing to the side. A woman in a white knit cap and a houndstooth coat stands with her back to the camera on a dim subway platform beside a hooded man.
A young woman with ribbon-wrapped curls and large hoop earrings looks straight ahead against a white wall. A young woman with twisted hair and a small nose ring looks straight into the camera against a white wall. A bearded man with a huge mass of curly hair and a fur collar poses with a bow and a bat over his shoulders against a white wall.

2005

Cleveland

A man with long dark hair and a fur coat looks over his shoulder at the camera, his hair lit from behind against a gray backdrop. Two young men sit side by side on a bed, one grinning with a beer bottle and the other playing an electric guitar.
A bearded man with curly hair is seen in near silhouette against a bright wall, looking down.