New Year's Eve and drunken revelry go hand-in-hand, and nowadays many countries associate New Year's Eve celebrations with rampant binge drinking and people acting wild in the streets.
But to properly showcase the sloppy nature of the night you've got to catch those celebrants in the raw- uncouth, uncaring and often unable to stand.
Some of these scenes resemble the tragic and comedic tableaus found in classical paintings, as those who have chosen to ring in the new year by getting blind stinking drunk are swept up in the bakkheia of Bacchus.
See the rest of the New Year's Eve Revellers, In Pictures here