If you’ve ever read anything else on this site, or have eyes, you’ve come to realize that I only like depressing things. My friend at the Chicago Art Magazine thought that my blackened heart needed an emotional makeover, so she asked me to do a review of photographer Eugene Richards’s new show at at Roosevelt University’s Cage Gallery. He only takes pictures of flowers in bloom and people in love. Just kidding. All of his pictures are actually super depressing. Somehow, he’s fooled the Gods and still makes work that is not only depressing but also really awesome and moving, a seemingly contradictory combination. His new show is called A Procession of Them: The Plight of the Mentally Disabled, or as I like to call it “People not Smiling when they’re in cages: A documentation of how life isn’t fair”. You can read my review here by clicking on this sentence and either the picture of the man in the cage, or the picture of the man in the cage. The third image will take you to something completely unrelated. I tried to make jokes in this paragraph, but, you know, it’s hard to joke about people being treated like animals in mental hospitals.

Tags: depressing, man in cage, man with horse