Ashkan Sahihi is a photographer with some interesting projects. First came his study of armpits. Then he took a bunch of non-drug users, fed them various illegal narcotics, and photographed them:
For each drug/subject cycle in The Drug Series, Sahihi then selected the one image that he felt best represented the volunteer’s experience on the particular drug he or she ingested. The resulting images of the anonymous subjects suggest the unpredictability of a drug’s force; some people smile or laugh, others appear pensive and detached, another is disoriented, unreachable.
The drug series is pretty fascinating. The images really do verify our stereotypes of various drugs and their effects.
The latest series features peoples’ portraits with their lovers’, uh, semen, all over them. The photos are shot in the least pornographic way possible–they’re head shots (d’oh, no pun intended) and the subjects are fully clothed. Yeah, you read that right. There’s an interview about this project on Nerve (this ‘literate smut’ site is not particularly safe for work).
Call it art if you will, I call it wierd 🙂