Viagra, Taryn Simon

For five days, Taryn Simon cataloged every item seized (from passengers or express mail) upon travel through JFK. Simon then alphabetized (?) these 1,075 items and published the photos in Contraband. "You have people arriving from different cultures with the normal parts of their everyday life," she explains, "and then these suddenly take on a wild identity under U.S. Customs."

via New York Times, 1 & 2