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This is how you look on drugs

Drug taken: MDMA (click to enlarge)
Drug taken: MDMA (click to enlarge)

Les Baker V’s INEBRI-NATION project is one of a kind. One may look at it as another purely photographic work while others a bold take on drug use and in some cases, abuse.

Meet Les Baker, a New Mexico-based photographer who has embarked on the most ludicrous, yet interesting in many aspects, projects taking portraits of people at the moment when the subjects reach the ‘high’ state on different drugs.

The idea behind it is to showcase just how diverse the effects can be, with many various transformations of individuals’ faces. And this is why we like the concept, because we believe the last thing a drug user wants is to face their face in such a state.

Another point worth highlighting is the array of people who took part in this project. You may have thought participants are all drug addicts or heavy users and perhaps from a disadvantaged background, but you could not be more wrong.

“The individuals featured in this series showcase the diversity of those who use mind altering substances. They include students, servers, doctors, soldiers, lawyers, politicians, mothers, fathers, artists, teachers, police officers, fire fighters, and judges,” .

The Creators Project spoke to him about his influences, his visions, and why he started the project in the first place, so head over to find out more about it.

In the meantime, we included some of these portraits below, notice the caption for them which tells you what drug these (brave) souls are on.

Would you be up for having your face which you may not feel but you probably like it <– some may have worked out the reference to this tune “Can’t feel my face” by The Weekend… fitting nicely uh? 🙂

Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine
LSD
LSD
Cocaine
Cocaine
Crack Cocaine
Crack Cocaine
Oxycontin
Oxycontin
Psilocybin
Psilocybin
Ketamine
Ketamine
LSD
LSD

Artocracy in Tunisia, a project by JR

JR’s latest project involved six Tunisian photographers who traveled the country upside down and took 100 pictures of unknown Tunisians. The aim was to get a representative sample of the Tunisian population from all ages and backgrounds.

Images from the project below.

Artocracy, a project initiated by Slim Zeghal and Marco Berrebi and created with the group of Tunisia

Photographers: Sophia Baraket | Rania Dourai | Wissal Dargueche | Aziz Tnani | Hichem Driss | Héla Ammar.

More on the project here – http://www.jr-art.net/

James George or how to use Kinect (Xbox)

Microsoft must have amazed quite a few of us with their latest innovation, I want to talke here about Kinect by like for all genius products, there is a sleepy hacker waiting to exploit and excel in using such products.

James George had the idea to modify the Kinect accessory and with the help of a HD SLR, he presents us with these amazing shots below taken across the NYC subway.

For the techies, James is using the depth image in a custom open framework application.

James Georges

James Georges

James Georges

Related links
> James George’s blog – www.jamesgeorge.org
> Set of James’ Kinect work on Flickr