Addiction, Prison & Recovery: One Couple's Story | Susan Stellin & Graham MacIndoe | TEDxStanford

Through their relationship that spanned heroin addiction, incarceration, recovery and an immigration fight to avoid deportation, Stellin and MacIndoe share the stunning self-portraits photographer MacIndoe took during his lowest life points, and tell their story of how they climbed out from the many black holes of recovery.

Susan Stellin, a reporter, is co-author with Graham MacIndoe of the memoir Chancers, published in 2016. Alternating between their two points of view, they chronicle Graham’s struggle with heroin addiction, arrest, incarceration, and recovery, as well as his fight to avoid getting deported back to Scotland. After he won his case, they were awarded a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation for their project American Exile, a series of interviews and portraits showing families divided by deportation. Their work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, New York magazine, TheAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. They both teach at The New School in New York City.

Graham MacIndoe, a photographer, is co-author with Susan Stellin of the memoir Chancers, published in 2016. Alternating between their two points of view, they chronicle Graham’s struggle with heroin addiction, arrest, incarceration, and recovery, as well as his fight to avoid getting deported back to Scotland. After he won his case, they were awarded a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation for their project American Exile, a series of interviews and portraits showing families divided by deportation. Their work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, New York magazine, TheAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. They both teach at The New School in New York City.

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