I always dreamed of living on an another earth-like world. Wondering how it might look, I began working on my project by researching astronomy and physics. Would a world be possible with blue soil, purple sun, and green nights? Why not? The idea of an infrared colored world had a major role on shaping the concept and style of the work. The series consist of photographs taken at Azerbaijan and Turkey. I tried to reflect another world by manipulating images towards color-surrealism without compromising real world appearance.
— Doruk Sikman
Another planet, another world
Camera reality is different from what we see with our eyes — so why not push that kind of vision even further to imagine what it might be like to live on a distant Earth-like planets aglow with wildly different colors than we experience here?
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The Americans
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Paris Exhibition of 52 LensCulture Award Winning Photographers
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Stille Berge
Rejecting the stereotypical approach to photographing sublime mountain ranges in the light of day, this photographer instead points his lens towards the snowy peaks of the Alps at night.
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