Fun, Revealing Portraits of People After One, Two, and Three Glasses of Wine

Things can get a bit fuzzy after a few glasses of wine, but Brazilian photographer Marcos Alberti has found a way to clearly conserve and catalog the merrymaking effects of the adored alcoholic beverage. In his latest series called 3 Glasses Later, which began as a joking experiment, Alberti invited friends to his apartment for happy hour and snapped their portraits just as they arrived, when their faces still reflected ā€œthe fatigue after working all day long, and from also facing rush hour traffic to get here.ā€ He then captured the way their moods and mannerisms shifted after one, two, and three glasses of wine.

The compositions are, as he says on his website, ā€œnothing fancyā€“a face and a wall, three times.ā€ But the close cropping against a consistent simplistic backdrop serves to highlight each subject's authentic emotions. Despite their different styles, interests, and careers, the models convey a basic universality in the human response to a bit of a buzz: with the uncorking of a bottle comes the uncorking of expression, and more joy seems to pour forth with every glass.

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All images via Marcos Alberti.

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