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Night’s projection Photography

Caroline Kurze — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:00:01 +0000

Hellena Burchard and Marine Billet created the series ‘Night’s projection’, a sequence of anamorphic compositions realized in different outdoor nightscapes. By using a video projector the two artists revealed geometrical forms – previously produced with Photoshop – in the bare landscape. None of the photos went under post production. Marine Billet states: “I don’t just take a picture of a landscape; I work with artificial forms with the intention of modeling this landscape through photographic work.”

All images © Hellena Burchard and Marine Billet

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Illuminated By Witchoria

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:53:55 +0000

We featured Victoria Siemer aka Witchoria previously with her series of manipulated landscapes. Now she is back with a new work entitled ‘Illuminated’ that features bright, glowing statements in nightly sceneries. It seems like she’s put neon-lit letters into the open landscape though it’s actually a digital manipulation that we’re looking at. The artist created a beautiful contrast between the harsh words and the peaceful, nocturnal landscape, making it seem like hard reality is lighting our way.

All images © Victoria Siemer

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The Beauty Of Cheetos By Jason DeMarte

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:37:40 +0000

Jason DeMarte combines idealist utopian landscapes with commercially produced and processed products such as Cheetos or Donuts. The tasty snacks, juxtaposed with the fruits of the natural world, spark an intriguing dialog between what’s man-made and what runs wild.

Instead of offering a moralized comparison, lauding the natural and condemning the artificial, DeMarte presents the strange beauty both have to offer. He says: “I represent the natural world through completely unnatural elements to speak metaphorically and symbolically of our mental separation from what is ‘real’.”

All images © Jason DeMarte | Via: Huffingtonpost

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Manipulated Landscapes by Witchoria

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:27:55 +0000

Artist Victoria Siemer aka Witchoria transforms landscapes by adding an element of the geometric into natural surroundings. Witchoria uses mainly grim, downcast and gloomy environments that evoke a moody, nostalgic feeling.
The result is a peaceful yet distorted picture that reminded us of the series Landscape Monolith that we featured a while ago.

All images © Victoria Siemer | Via: Trendhunter

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Burned Over by Amelia Bauer

Caroline Kurze — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:02:45 +0000

Amelia Bauer created the series ‘Burned Over’ in the forests of Central New York. Inspired by the mysterious stories that evolve around the ‘burned-over district’ of upstate New York, Amelia used artificial lighting to act as an outside force on the landscape. The territory was the birthplace of several early American religious and occult groups. The photographs reveal something felt but not seen about these forests, as though the land itself holds a presence we seek to uncover but fear revealing entirely.

All images © Amelia Bauer | Via: Faith is Torment

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Metallurgy by Caroline Mackintosh

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:55:54 +0000

Caroline Mackintosh’s latest personal work centers itself around the re-construction of natural environments through composition and light-manipulation. Her series ‘Metallurgy’, features landscapes around Cape Town, South Africa (her place of birth and current base) and uses mirrors to create juxtaposing portals of warped light – resulting in the beautiful and surreal images of the collection.
When asked about how she creates this unique and eerie viewing experience, she replies: ‘The idea was to highlight the loneliness of the landscapes by establishing the mirror-portals as separate, almost sentient, entities and placing them to hover in isolation, as though forever experiencing an alternate perspective’

All images © Caroline Mackintosh

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Distorted Landscape by Laura Plageman

Esther Jablotschkin — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:20:25 +0000

Set against the backdrop of the digital age, Laura Plageman considers notions of realism and authenticity using analog processes. In her ‘Response’ series, she treats photographs as both representations and tangible objects, touching on the possibilities of realist representation, referentiality, and the photograph-as-thing. ‘My process unfolds through observation and experimentation; I let the image and its materiality dictate its direction. Playing with paper and light in unplanned and organic ways, I look for new ways to perceive space, form, and context of my subjects.’ she explains.

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Landscape Monolith

Hannah Edwards — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:15:49 +0000

Multimedia artist Reynald Drouhin’s revises crystal clear landscapes in his series ‘Landscape Monolith’, by turning sections of the land upside-down. By placing odd shapes directly in the center of the horizon he creates a window into a distinct, new place that matchlessly blends with the surrounding environment.

The intense colors and almost clear-cut lines of nature create abstract scenes. Drouhin doesn’t only work on dedicated spaces but apprehends alternately different possibilities, in that way trying to reveal something else than the ‘visible’ such a parallel space, ghostlike, strange, or resulting from coded data.

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Alternative Landscapes

Anke Nunheim — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:55:21 +0000

Montreal-based photographer Benoit Paillé created the series ‘Alternative Landscapes’ due to the need of something else, because he actually hates landscapes. Thus he decided to stage his own vision of landscape and created an art installation where he lit various outdoor locations with a glowing little light square. By the way: the pictures aren’t photoshopped: Paillé suspended a 1×1 m cube for his beautiful illumination that have kind of a poetic space and time purpose.

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