Lakes and Reservoirs is a collection of photos by Matthew Brandt that is captivating upon first glance. I have never been so quickly immersed in a set of photo's as these ones that mix conventional landscape shots with distortion which reveals an array of colours and shapes without the use of computers. In fact these images were Chromogenically printed before being soaked in American lake water to give the twisted effects. With photography is is often bypassed that photographers are able to use more than just their camera and editing software to create a striking image and Brandt is here to prove that with this collection. It would be so hard to create the marvelous shapes in these images with any medium, let alone thinking them up in the first place and that is where natural processes come in with their unrivaled spontaneity and destructive nature that Brandt has harnessed in almost all of his photographic works.
Still life photographer Laura Letinsky caught my eye with her very minimalist compositions. Still life is always synonymous with painting however Letinsky challenges that in her pictures. Her work has a perfect sense of balance between the elements in the photographs regardless of how many there are or how large they are. Her sense of colour is amazing and I love the cool and subtle colour palette she incorporates into her pieces which appeals to my weakness for pastels and minimal design. I commend her for an ability to make mundane objects into art.
Didier Massard creates images that are unlike anything I have ever seen as he incorporates a fantastical element into his landscapes. After taking on still photography for big brands such as Chanel and Hermes, Massard became the master of fabricated photography; a form of photo manipulation that sees photographs changed from their original to create something completely different. I had never considered photo fabrication before I took a look at Massard's pieces but this is an area of photography that has my attention. I'm a lover of fantasy novels and this is something that combines both reality and fantasy in a perfect syncronisation of two concepts. The finesse with which Massard creates these mystical worlds is amazing and must take so much times spent on programs such as Photoshop to become this talented at manipulation. Not only that but a vivid imagination is needed to even think up the infinite number of possibilities available with this medium.
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