What do the chemicals of hedonistic night lovers look like? After years of working in Berlin’s nightlife scene photographer Sarah Schoenfeld was curious to find out. So she took microscopic images of illegal drugs, revealing intricate works of chemical beauty. Of the project she explains:
‘Since the 1950s, we in the western world have increasingly come to understand our most intimate desires and experiences, as the products of a so-called “chemical self”. We are able to explain moods, angers, and diseases both physiological and psychological through an imbalance of substances in the body. All of this, of course, takes place against the backdrop of a constantly shifting legal and political climate regarding the regulation of
different types of mood altering substances. What all these substances actually look like when their essence is visually depicted?’
Speed
Ecstasy
Heroin
MDMA
Ketamine
LSD
via It’s Nice That
