A Peek Into The Lives of Sex Workers with Scot Sothern | AD 73

Published: June 21, 2017, 10:46 p.m.

Writer / photographer, Scot Sothern, bounced around for forty years.\xa0In 2010, at 60, his first solo exhibit, LOWLIFE, photos and stories of life with street prostitutes, was held at the notorious Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles.\xa0His first book of the same title was published in the U.K. by Stanley Barker in 2011. The British Journal of Photography called LOWLIFE, \u201cThe years\u2019 most controversial photobook.\u201d Scot\u2019s work has since been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, and Paris.\xa0In 2013 he began a biweekly column, Nocturnal Submissions, for VICE Magazine, and Curb Service: A Memoir, was published by Soft Skull Press. STREETWALKERS, stories and photographs was published by powerHouse Books in February 2016. Writer, Jerry Stahl, called it \u201cAn absolutely amazing and essential book." BIG CITY, published in 2017 by Stalking Horse Press, is Sothern\u2019s first novel.

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