Sideways-Shooting Photographer Turns Worlds on End. Sideways-Shooting Photographer Turns Worlds on End Article by Steph, filed under Photography & Video in the Art category. Just looking at these optical illusions by conceptual artist Philippe Ramette might give you a bit of vertigo. Galerie Xippas. Surreal Photographs. Born in 1961, Philippe Ramette is a French conceptual artist who plays with the viewer’s mind.
Ramette creates gravity-defying photographs that appear to be digitally manipulated, using cleverly designed weight-bearing structures (or lead weights for the underwater shots), but in fact they are real world settings that were carefully arrangement, in order to achieve these impressive scenes. In Ramette’s surreal photography, surrealism literally invades reality.
These self-designed devices allow him to stand/sit at seemingly impossible angles, hidden by his clothes or the angle in which the shot is taken.