The Ukrainian photographer Valentine Bo constructing grotesque sci-fi scenes to investigate modern life.

Images from his ongoing sci-fi-style photographic series, Your Next Step Would Be To Do The Transmission, featuring plaster casts of human faces swimming in a formaldehyde-like substance, or propped on a metallic cloche under operating theatre lights, have been widely shared online. These hyper-realistic masks suggest the unnerving clinicality of an alternative past or a near future, as well as the cool detachment of scientific observation.