If we lived in a universe where space could be flattened and folded to create a new dimension, our faces might look like those in Alma Haser's portrait series, Cosmic Surgery.
She does this by superimposing folded origami structures over original same-size photo portraits — taking 3D to 2D via photography, and then back to 3D with origami, only to be reduced one last time to a 2D image of an image, albeit with a trompe l'oeil 3D illusionist effect...
These disquieting "portraits" bring to mind cubist and surreal art as well as bug-like multiple vision and kaleidoscopes.
One unexpected side effect, for me, is that suddenly details in each photograph become increasingly important and integral to the success of the images as a whole.
So, I notice the scruff of hair on the back of a neck, or the weave of a sweater, the general posture of the sitters, the hint of tattoo peeking out from a lacey blouse.
— Jim Casper
“In the art museums of Russia, women sit in the galleries and guard the collections,” writes photographer . “When you look at the paintings and sculptures, the presence of the women becomes an inherent part of viewing the artwork itself.”
Let's sit down before we go is a portrait of the places visited and the people she met, stayed with and became friends with during her travels across Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Siberia, Tatarstan and Uzbekistan. It seems little changed over the 20 years from when she started in 1991, and 2009, when the last photographs in the book were taken.
Paris-based photographer unveils a new series of children's portraits from a make-believe costume party where the kids come dressed as creatures of their own imaginations.
Brazilian artist doctored the photos in her collective family albums by removing the images of her relatives who died, leaving black silhouettes where the dead had once been alive.
