Photographer’s Raw Images Explore the War on Drugs

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A person wearing blue gloves holds a prescription pill bottle in one hand and examines it with a flashlight in the other, set against a completely dark background.

For more than twenty years, documentary photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie has worked inside some of the world’s most volatile environments, from front-line trenches in the Middle East to fragile, contested communities across Africa. With his new project, Drug Wars: Supply and Demand, Alpeyrie brings that same sensibility to one of the Western Hemisphere’s most complex and destabilizing issues: the international narcotics trade.

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