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Artistic Photo Editing of Everyday Built Environments
Erik Johansson takes photo editing and manipulation to new levels with his ever-growing collection of creative, innovative and amazing scenes of altered architecture and unbelivable built environments, distorted objects and twisted imagery – all while preserving an eerie photo-realism from the original photographic subject. Given his emphasis on constructed objects, the care with which he crafts every detail of each image and controls the overall composition, it is perhaps no surprise that this photographer’s background is not in the arts but in computer engineering and interactive design. The rich three-dimensional complexity of each edited photograph is accomplished using exclusively two-dimensional computer editing tools and each work is based on a real photograph, manipulated, altered and added to in a layered and sequential process.
Lee Jeffries career began as a sports photographer, capturing the beautiful game of football in Manchester. Then a chance meeting with a homeless woman living in the streets of London changed his life forever. He has since dedicated himself to capturing gripping portraits of the disenfranchised.
25 Incredibly Detailed Black And White Portraits of the Homeless by Lee Jeffries
La estética submarina de los cuerpos desnudos
Omniphantastic es una serie fotográfica de Neil Craver que muestra la sublime interacción de cuerpos desnudos con entornos subacuáticos. Un proceso de remediación “vivencial” (o remediatización) de un cuerpo puede, en muchas ocasiones, derivar en una aventura de singular estética. Extraer un elemento, en este caso un cuerpo humano, de su entorno original y colocarlo, no a través de tecnologías digitales o técnicas como el del collage, sino vivencialmente, enfatiza la apreciación de ciertas características que comúnmente nos cuesta trabajo apreciar. Y tal vez por está razón es que la serie Omniphantastic , del fotógrafo Neil Craver, remarca la seductora naturaleza del cuerpo humano: moldeable, liviano, revestido de una increíble y coqueta flexibilidad.
Beautifully Offbeat Photography (13 photos)
Samuel Bradley's photos cannot be neatly categorized. Wonderfully offbeat and somewhat quirky, they truly span the spectrum. As he tells us, "I'm battling with two different ways of working and I don't know which one I prefer. I think most people follow my work and blog for the more quirky, interestingly processed and sometimes a bit 'cliché vintage' photographs. They're accessible to a wider audience, they don't require a lot of explanation and invite people to make their own assumptions and construct their own meanings."Thought-Provoking: Jill Greenberg's Glass Ceiling
Now showing at ClampArt gallery in New York is Jill Greenberg's beautifully riveting series Glass Ceiling . While Greenberg is known for her incredible portraiture that includes crying babies , A-list celebrities or even cute and cuddly bears , she's equally adept at taking her camera off land and under water. Back in 2008, Greenberg was commissioned to shoot a commercial fashion spread with the US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team, which asked the ladies to wear high heels. Struck by the absurdity of it all, Greenberg was inspired to create a fine art set that would show the "tension of her models coming to the surface gasping for air while wrestling with the weight of the water as a metaphor for the role women must play in the outside world." Sent to us from ClampArt gallery, here are some of photos from that thought-provoking series.
La instalación “Beyond Infinity” del artista francés Serge Salat en Shanghai reproduce un infinito cromado de luces que sumergen al espectador en un espacio virtual de estimulación multisensorial. Simulando un policromático y vertiginoso infinito, la instalación Beyond Infinity del arquitecto francés Serge Salat, en un centro comercial de Shanghai, busca ser una experiencia multisensorial en la que el espectador-participante se sumerge “en un viaje místico”. Combinando espejos, luz LED, música y objetos fractales para inducir encantamiento estético y alucinaciones perceptuales, Salat trastoca el constructo espacial, que oscila entre un ambiente disco y el interior iterado de una dimensión puramente digital.
“Más allá del infinito”: la fortaleza de espejos fractales de Serge Salat
Lo que más disfruta el talentoso Jim Denevan, después de montar olas con su tabla, es trazar espectaculares dibujos en la arena que manifiestan discursos geométricos. Jim Denevan es un buen surfer, lleva ya varios años montando las olas del norte de California. Sin embargo, su mayor talento, a pesar de estar íntimamente relacionado con el mar, no se manifiesta sobre su tabla, sino sobre la arena en la playa, que Denevan transforma, cuando hay marea baja, en un gigantesco lienzo. Equipado con trozos de madera que el mar arroja a tierra, Denevan realiza trazos que terminan por desdoblarse en una especie de increíbles mapas geométricos. Algo notable de la obra de Denevan es su relación con dos conceptos fundamentales para distintas corrientes artísticas.
