Photographer’s Project Documents Fake Drug Smuggling at JFK Airport

A photographer’s project documenting what type of illicit goods come into the U.S. through New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport revealed smuggled counterfeit products including fake drugs.

Taryn Simon spent five days and five nights in 2009 at one of JFK’s busiest terminals, reports CNN. There she not only encountered many knock-off handbags and fake gold, but also phony goods of a more sinister nature, counterfeit drugs.

The more than 1,000 photographs that Simon and her team took of goods confiscated by the airport’s custom officials will be displayed at shows in New York City and Beverly Hills, California, called “Contraband”. The show schedule is available at her website, tarynsimon.com. In addition, a 500-page book is planned.