“In Soininen’s photographs, the world is rendered otherwordly and everyday reality seems heightened and elementally mysterious. The branches of spreading trees seem electrically charged with light; a flock of pigeons hover in the air as if suspended; hedgerow flowers glow with an infra-red intensity. Soininen eschews post-production trickery, instead using colour gels when shooting. Blessedly she does not attempt to describe the psychedelic experience in all its sensory overload. Instead, her images are freighted with subtle clues that suggest the ways in which the drug can alter people’s perceptions as well as erode their logic and rationality.” (Sean O'Hagan)

The Guardian

“Soininen’s photographs capture vivid, hyper real colours, impossibly complex and detailed structures, ordinary objects imbued with a sense of extraordinary significance, and a feeling of the absolute connectedness of all things in the world. For anyone who has themselves used hallucinogens, these images will resonate strikingly with the experience. The book does an impressive job of communicating part of what it is that makes these substances so attractive, the type of heightened awareness that makes the familiar strange, and the strange familiar.” (Lewis Bush)

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