Turbulence

During my photographic career, I have worked along two paths, straight photography and photo collage. Originally photo collages were limited to double exposures, sandwich techniques and physical cut and paste using darkroom techniques and photocopying machines. The first version of Photoshop revolutionized this. Now everything was possible and any picture imaginable might emerge. Expensive film productions and the gaming industry have exhausted realistic image manipulation to a point, where this is hardly interesting for the artist. By creating a workflow closer to traditional darkroom techniques (e.g. solarization and rasterization), I have found a liberating way to create new photo-based worlds. Using this, pictures may be mixed, layered and coloured freely to create new and future worlds. Any material from my whole 50 years back can be thrown into the stew. Any vision in the artists head may be realized. And the resulting pictures can be printed in huge sizes. This is a place where I as a photographer acquire the imaginative freedom of the painter. But still, the works are photographs – in a new and strange way. This series of ten photo collages named Turbulence is a short s