Sensory deprivation self-portraits

The idea for this series came to me when I was thinking about how our attention span keeps shrinking day after day of being overstimulated by all the noise that surrounds us. Everyone and everything craves our attention, our phones keep beeping, all sorts of notifications keep popping up on our laptops and tablets, we're being constantly reminded we need to be accessible and it's crippling our ability to concentrate. Can we even still be left alone with no outside stimuli, or is it too much, or maybe actually too little? And if so how long can we last with only our own thoughts? With the purpose of finding out the answers to these questions I've asked some people to take part in a photographic experiment I came up with. I invited them to my studio and asked them to sit down on a sofa in front of a large format camera. I then give them the trigger and the only thing I ask them to do is to squeeze it whenever they feel like it, whether they were getting anxious, or tired, anything at all, just click it when you've had enough. I've then turned of the light and left them in total darkness and silence with a stopwatch in my hand to measure how much time passes before they take the picture after I flick the light switch. These seven images were shot on 4x5 slide film. I do plan on making more, but I think it's time to share this idea with the world, especially that it already illustrates what I was hoping to achieve very well.