… I met Jim around 20 years ago. He carried with him a photo album of Polaroids and prints. They were amazing. His work seemed to radiate that time in the late 70's when I first moved to SF. They were raw and intimate, harsh yet soft-- his vision was ahead of its time…
- Jim Goldberg, artist
Unknowingly foreshadowing the AIDS epidemic that would grip underground communities throughout the country, Jocoy’s poignant photos share an intimacy not unlike that found in the work of Nan Goldin, combined with the underground compulsion and clout that permeates the photos of Katsumi Watanabe, and Karlheinz Weinberger.
Spanning three short years from 1977 to 1980, the collection of images is structured in three chapters, vignettes from a one night affair where emotions range from delight to despair, sober to wasted, clear to blurry to half-way-clear-again by morning.