Opioids of space and time

This series was initially conceived while covering a series of incidents coming from the opioid crisis in the US, which has victimised a full generation in that country and elsewhere. It also came to me that the legendary photographer Nan Goldin, herself allegedly a victim of this crisis, had engaged in “radical” action to protest the power of pharmaceutical lobbies in pushing medicines to people. I tried in this series to envisage the spirit of this protest to speculate on the spatiotemporal materialities of feeling lost in a cloud of drugs that engulf our senses. Trying not to trivialise the suffering and tragedy affecting many people, I sought to position myself in places that could temporarily take me away from my immediate surroundings, while allowing some space for reflection and meditation.