post-shock care

A bearded man in green silk pants, black-and-white-striped referee’s jersey, straw boater hat with yellow brim and round dark glasses wields two bright red car buffers in gloved hands at the camera. A black scrim hangs behind him on a red crossbar. He is less dusty than his very dusty surroundings.
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A bearded man in green silk pants, black-and-white-striped referee’s jersey, straw boater hat with yellow brim and round dark glasses wields two bright red car buffers in gloved hands at the camera. A black scrim hangs behind him on a red crossbar. He is less dusty than his very dusty surroundings.
Our Burning Man camp (OKNOTOK) spent the afternoons after the slew of storms shooting Shock Collar Portraiture of anyone willing to sit down, have an electric dog-training collar strapped to their neck, and suffer a zap at the same time we snapped their photo. Everybody laughs. Every single anxious, brave, smug, or terrified participant who sits down, just loses it in the moment.

The photos are all amazing: the camera catches them at their most alive - eyes alight and mouths open in shocked laughter (!).

We’ve been doing it for years and will keep it up.

This year I added car-buffer massages to the mix, easing the electrically-(and work- and storm- and life/)induced tensions of more than 200 people who got shocked. Never sent away an unhappy customer. We were the hit of the block.

Also, my back and hands hurt.

(Photo by Eric Hinote)

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