Object- Maciej Dakowicz

I now want to look at photographers and artists that have also looked at the social issue of drinking and taking drugs. I came across the photographer Maciej Dakowicz. Dakowicz took a series of photos called Cardiff after Dark, they were taken over a couple of Friday and Saturday nights and show the effects of drinking after a night out. The effect on the people themselves and the effect of the streets of Cardiff.

This picture shows a group of people lying down in the middle of a road. Something they would never probably do in day to day life under normal circumstance but intoxicated they do this incredible dangerous act and laugh and seem to find it funny.

This picture shows a man who has clearly been in a fight and is now bleeding as a result.

This women has passed out on the floor and is needing help from two policemen.

These pictures show shocking truths of what actually goes on, on the streets of Britain. It has been helpful looking at Dakowicz work because it has given me more ideas, that I can use for my project, of the destructive incidents that can come from drink and drugs to the environment and to the people themselves. Such as lying down in the middle of the road, drunken fights leading to a man with blood all over his top, a passed out women on the floor surrounded by two police trying to help. However the pictures are not of objects they are of the people themselves so I need to find a way of displaying the effects that drinking leaves behind maybe. So maybe the mess in the street after a night out. That has to be cleaned up, the extra police that have to be around at night. Although the police are again people not objects. So just the effects of the place maybe.

I could take pictures of the mess left behind like in the picture above. If this picture didn't have a person in it and just had the bin with the mound of kebab boxes it would be prefect.