Video: "Half" - a social project about the dangers of drugs by London photographer Roman Sakovich
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
Social project about the dangers of drugs London photographer Roman Sakovich got a laconic name - "Half" … Why this is so is not difficult to guess. The portraits of the models are really shocking, because half of their bodies are "disfigured": the photographer, using makeup and various clothes, showed what drug abusers look like. In the photo - literally "before" and "after", combined into a single image.
Of course, the models in a staged photo shoot about the dangers of drug addiction looks much more presentable than people suffering from drug addiction. However, it is obvious that the effect that is achieved by "combining" two images in one allows you to look at this social evil from the other side: there is only one step from a prosperous life to a miserable existence, and not only a teenager from an unreliable family can become a drug addict, but any person …
Roman Sakovich shows how drugs disfigure a person. According to the photographer, this approach, when half of the face is made up and the model is wearing different clothes, enhances the contrast, emphasizes the rapid "metamorphosis" of the human body. In confirmation of this, we can recall the words of the legendary Edith Piaf, said by her during her drug addiction treatment: "The moment when you inject not so that you feel good, but that you do not feel bad, comes very quickly." Roman Sakovich's photographs are a vivid confirmation of the fact that drugs do not bring joy, but lower a person to the social bottom, and once having chosen this path, it will be very difficult to return to normal life.
Of course, drugs change not only a person's appearance, the worst thing is the effect psychotropic substances have on consciousness. Mutations of the human mind are captured in yet another scandalous art project with the "telling" name "Drugs", we wrote about it earlier on our website Culturology. RU. This is a series of self-portraits painted by American artist Brian Lewis Saunders after taking drugs.
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