The stormtroopers of Darth Vader may seem like soulless soldiers with no sense of direction, but behind that shiny white armor conceals a warm heart with the same feelings and insecurities you have. At least that’s what photographer Jorge Pérez Higuera and his stormtrooper photo series The Other Side captures; the everyday details of stormtrooper existence.Within the portraits we see that even Darkside sympathizers need jobs, get consume in knitting, party on the weekends and chill in a hot tub. Perez Higuera was inspired by the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. In one of his essays, he writes: "The daily routine is every man’s life. There is no such man, regardless of his ‘insubstantiality’, who can merely live the daily routine, although it would mainly absorb him. The daily routine is the life of the man who is complete.”
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Next time you are stuck in gridlock, imagine that in a parallel universe far, far away there is an unfortunate stormtrooper who is just as passionate laying on the horn of his starfighter.
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