Binary Prints is a project by Barcelona-based illustrator and designer Alex Truchot, who invented a process through which two completely separate images can be shown on one surface, depending on whether it’s viewed in the light or the dark.

After becoming interested in the duality that could be represented in one-dimensional art forms, Trochut worked with acclaimed electronic musicians to create this series. James Murphy, Caribou, Four Tet, Damian Lazarus, Acid Pauli, John Talabot, Lucy and many others were involved in the project and each had their portrait taken in a way which represents them ‘coming alive’ at night. Binary Prints has its content mirror form to raise the question about how public figures project their creative identities to the world.

“These nocturnal portraits ‘wake up’ in the dark, just as the DJs come alive at night, as do audiences under the spell of their music,” Alex says. “Anyone who has been present at those transcendental moments of communion at a show can attest to the experience as an awakening––a nighttime rebirth of mind and body. There is a literal translation of the inverted blinking eye, which shows the artists emerging into their nocturnal personas, bringing them into focus, from a anonymous being to an icon of music and sound.”

The prints come in limited editions of 10, each signed by the musician. They will be available to purchase through the project’s online store (a visit is highly recommended) from 13th June onwards, with 30% of the profits going to a charity chosen by the specific artist.