Long before the invention of Photoshop, artists were creating trippy fake images. The techniques used to create these images include multiple exposure on a single negative, and printing a single print from multiple negatives. In the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann revolutionized the art of photography by manually blending negatives in the dark room to produce surreal landscapes.
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Hossein Zare is a self-learned photographer based in Bushehr, Iran. Hossein captures beautiful landscape or cityscape pictures, and then creates stunning surrealistic artworks using photo manipulations in which his subjects defy gravity.
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“Most of my pieces involve old-style scissors-and-paper collage, a humble but immensely satisfying medium. I like the process of combining seemingly unrelated images (old photos, magazine clippings, coloured bits of paper, images found in old books or on the internet) into a different reality that might startle, amuse or provoke.
I live and work in the Pacific Northwest, on an island in the middle of a lake, surrounded by a big city.”
Sebastien Thibault is an illustrator based in Matane in the Canadian Gaspé Peninsula. With creations playing with symbols and colors, and exploring human relations and technology, his strong portfolio includes works for TIME, The Boston Globe and Rolling Stone Italy.
Hungarian self-taught photographer and visual artist Noell S. Oszvald presents a portfolio of powerful self-portraits. So dark and sophisticated imagery. She creates black and white pictures only, as she says she finds colors distracting.
Moscow based digital artist and illustrator Tatiana Kazakova mixes fishes, birds, flying saucers, mystical trees and flowers creating a whimsy effect with great details. Her illustrations are a mix of media, between painting and digital manipulation.
Oliver Delgado shoots rows of trees in such a way they create outstanding visual illusions of endless tunnels. The photos are genuine and not digital montages. As Delgado said, “All images are real. I only adjusted levels in Lightroom.”
Iranian photographer Hossein Zare has created this impressive series of minimalist black and white photography that symbolize our journey through life.
German fashion photographer Helen Sobiralski won several awards for her original series titled Cockaignesque. Inspired by Baroque still-life paintings, Cockaignesque explores the theme of opulence and oblivious abundance.
