Aziz and Cucher
This series of photographs created by Aziz and Cucher is
called 'dystopia’.
Dystopia means a place or
state that is imagined, where everything is unpleasant or bad. This series is
made up of portraits, and each person’s facial features have been removed, the
nostrils have been filled with skin and their ears are also filled in. it is
said to document a pathology, which is the study of diseases, their causes and
the physical consequences.
Due to the non existent
facial features, its quite difficult to know anything about the person, their
identity has gone. Portraits are usually taken to show something about the
person, which is why these are so interesting, you cannot see the person’s
facial expression, and they are all taken on plain backgrounds. The only
characteristics giving something away about the person, is their hair that has
been left natural, and the position of the person. In a ‘normal’ portrait you
can usually tell something about the person by their facial expressions and the clothes they are wearing, Aziz and Cucher's photographs show none of these.
Loretta Lux
The fine art photographs that Loretta Lux creates are creepy and eerie; they have a spooky feeling and remind me of possessed children from horror films. The pastel colours create the eerie feeling and the children’s emotionless expressions make them seem creepy.
When editing her photographs
she takes out the background and replaces it with some of her paintings or
studio backdrops, as she was a former artist. She erases objects so the picture
doesn’t look crowded or busy and she uses children as her models because she
believes they have nothing to hide and are ‘honest’ models. The children wear
vintage clothing so that the picture appears to be taken from a different
decade.
Alberto Seveso
Whilst researching manipulated portraits, I came across Alberto Seveso, an illustrator/photographer. He mixes portraits with ink. These are portraits of music artist Ayaka. The thing I liked most about his portraits where the colours of the ink, each picture has a different look to it because of the colours he used.
Christophe Gilbert
Another photographer I found was Christophe Gilbert, his pictures are amazing. My favourite are these ones with the flowers, they are so strange but look really good.
Each one of the pictures he creates are unique and surreal. The style kind of reminds me of some of Nick Knights work.
Shoot
These are some of the pictures I taken in my shoot, I didn't take many because I knew exactly the pictures I needed and after I'd taken them there was nothing left to do.
Editing
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