Cedar Falls, Iowa-based photographer Tim Dodd has a funny and poignant series titled ‘Everyday Astronaut’ in which he imagines himself as an astronaut adjusting to life back on earth.
He started the series as a way of putting a Russian high-altitude space suit that he won in an online auction to good use.
Dodd, who has loved space since he was a child, said he felt a “huge responsibility to do something ridiculous” when he won it, according to an interview with BuzzFeed.
His photographs show him going about his daily life in his astronaut suit, from picking out his wardrobe to grocery shopping.
Donning the suit was physically exhausting; in real life astronauts are attached to a cooling unit whereas Dodd’s suit doesn’t have that luxury.
He wore the suit for a shoot at Florida’s SpaceX rocket at the Kennedy Space Center when children started asking to take photographs with him. He had to turn them away after half an hour because he was perspiring immensely.
His favorite picture is of him forlornly riding a playground space shuttle, which he said sums up NASA’s lack of a manned space program.
Check out his photographs below and view the entire set here.
[via BuzzFeed, images via Tim Dodd]