Suited volunteers in bowler hats stand in the surf holding umbrellas aloft at sunrise at Bondi Beach on June 27, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. The human installation is the latest in a series of “surreal human sculptures” by artist Andrew Baines (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

A mahout (elephant driver) walks a baby elephant across the city streets at night September 27, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Brick-carving featuring Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) maids performing musical instruments is seen at the Chinese Music History Museum in Xian University of Architecture and Technology on September 27, 2008 in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Drinkers celebrated on the last Friday before Christmas in York, United Kingdom on December 18, 2020. Black Eye Friday, affectionately named for its tendency to prompt drink-fuelled punch ups as the Christmas cheer spills over, has been dampened this year by the global coronavirus pandemic shutting bars and banning socialising. (Photo by Nb press ltd)

The sun rises over St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay on the Northumberland coast as a flock of Lapwing seabirds fly past on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Ukrainian Air Force officers attend a graduation ceremony at the National University of Defence of Ukraine in Kiev, April 24, 2015. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

Photographer Patrick Halls likes to make the people he takes photos of uncomfortable in order to “capture a real emotion”. It is no wonder that for his latest project, he decided to stun his subjects with a taser.

A demonstrator wears a message on a t-shirt in Tahrir Square on May 27, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that there would be no use of violence against protests dubbed “the Second Revolution of Anger” taking place in Cairo and other cities in Egypt. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)