Cole is an extremely underrated photo manipulation photographer. He is also a 20 year old self taught visual artist. His skills with photoshop and lightroom have really inspired me to create similari mages with his “style”.
I really love Cole’s images as he uses a lot of orange and teal tones in his photos which is similar to my colour palette. His style is also very mordern compared to most other manipulation photographers. In the image below, i think it as an unsettiling vibe to it. The orange/red balloon adds a sort of “Penny-wiise” feeling to this image. I like this because it adds a sense of story for the viewer.
Tommy Ingberg is a multi-award winning photographer and visual artist. He was born 1980 in Sweden. He works with photography and digital image editing to create minimalistic and self-reflecting surreal photo montages dealing with human nature, feelings and thoughts. His work is represented in collections all over the world, from the National Museum of Photography in Colombia and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. During the last eight years his work has won over 30 international awards.
Tommy’s work has such an “old fashioned” style, almost like his photos were taken in early1900. His manipulation photography is really interesting and quite a mystery. His images also have a dark melancholic look. I like these images due to the simplicity that Tommy has created. I really like the composition in the image above, it is simple but still interesting. I also like the black and white contrast beause I think it puts a moody atmosphere into the image. The two images also creates an unsettiling tone or vibe. Overall I really like the style of Tommy’s work.
Erik Johansson was born 1985. He is a photographer and visual artist from Sweden based in Prague, Czech Republic. His work can be described as surreal world created by combining different images. Erik works on both personal and commissioned projects with exhibitions and clients all around the world. within Erik’s photography the focus is on the story and the goal is to make it look as realistic as possible even if the scene itself contains impossible elements/events.
An obvious choice for this research but his photography is remarkable. Johansson’s skill in creating illusion images is phenomenal, and his photoshop skills are exceptionally good. Erik is a photographer as much as a retoucher which allows him to create anything you can imagine. The reasoning to me liking Erik’s images is his creativity. Every imahes has a different “story” and Erik’s imagination turned into real images is amazing. In the background of the image above, the electric guitar almost blends within the image. I only noticed it was surreal when i looked at the image for longer than 10 seconds. The metal strings from the guitar contrast really well into the power lines, making it look like the guitar actually fits into the scene.
A polish photographer called Dariusz Klimczak composes dreamlike landscapes that show their surprise and weirdness. Dariusz Klimczak has been a professional photographer for 30 years, a few of which he spent creating photo manipulations. The artist prefers monochromatic (colours of a single hue.) images, where fantastic scenes look even more authentic and mystical at the same time when they’re black and white. The manipulations of the photographer's images open the door to his imaginative world where quirky characters bring a bleak desert to life. Everyday items contrast in odd compositions with animals or humans, conflicting with gravity and the other physical laws without which our common sense would collapse, Similar to Erik Johansson‘s work. His photos are surrealistic due to his artist montages. He says that the aim of his images is to use stories and universal symbols to move his viewers and force them to think or to simply crack a smile.
These images remind me of Tommy Ingberg’s style. They’re similar in a sense but still have their uniqueness. Dariusz’s images give off a very vintage look/mood. His work seems to inspire the atmosphere of the vast deserts in his photos, as do the stilt-walkers and other characters. These images seem to bend or break the laws of physics, but the fact that most of the images remain photo-realistic makes them all the more unsettling. I particularly liked the phone in the sand shot. The phones look like they represent “palm trees” dug into the sand. His work is really brilliant, unique, and innovative.
Riccardo Bagnoli is and Advertising Photographer and Film Director based in Milan. He has great experience also in Lifestyle and Portrait Photography, in fact he often shot italian and foreign celebrities. Riccardo was born in Florence in 1963 on April Fool’s day.
THe image above features surfers hatching from eggs, emphasising the coming out of the Sundek surf wear. i really like this image because it adds alot of mystery to the “characters” within the scene. i also like the moody look with the musty tones frmo the sand and mountain in the background. When looking at the second image the first thing that jumps out is the man breathing fire intothe big hot air balloon, due to the scale of it compared to everything else in the scene, he is shown to be at the foreground of the image, another thing that makes the subject stand out is the contrasting colours used like the dull, cold and moody background with the bright fire. I also believe that the cold and dull colours help to set a mood that contrasts the city below. I think that this image is showing excitement and fun.
