Planet of the monkey

It’s the second instalment of our Monkey Shoulder whisky photography challenge and things are getting strange. Stepping up to the lightbox on this occasion is rising star Dirk Rees and he’s gone well weird…

The brief was that he should do no more than keep an open mind, and from the looks of things, while his mind was open, it was infiltrated by three monkeys, a naked man and a cage.

But who the hell can work out what’s actually going on? Where are they? What are the monkeys doing? Are they angry? Are they bored? Why’s there a naked man in a cage? And where the fug’s the whisky?

Thank God for photographers and that creativity thing they’ve got. If it had been left to us Arena hacks we’d have been tapping our Biros on our jotter pads for three days, then just scrawled a glass of whisky and trudged off home to watch Celebrity Big Brother.

No doubt the photographer for our third instalment will rise to the challenge as the bar is raised even higher next month. All we’ve got to do is find a willing candidate. You’d better pass us the Biro and jotter pad, this is going to take some thinking…