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Uncanny Photographic Portraits by Romina Ressia

Argentinian photographer Romina Ressia shoots disorienting portraits, playing with textiles and props to adorn her sitters and their environments. Her recent series, "Renaissance Cubism," is Ressia's mash-up of two art historical eras that highly influence her work. She clothes her subjects in the austere black and white costuming of male nobility in the age of Velasquez. But a few seemingly simple placements of props and digital edits make these photographs the stuff of dreams. One character's wig faces the front and obscures her face, suggesting her head has revolved 180 degrees. Meanwhile, another character wears a box on her head, the opening for her eye moved slightly to the right to complicate the harmonious proportions of her face. In Ressia's "What Do You Hide?" series, the artist plays with the idea of the mask as a metaphor for the different roles we play, camouflaging the characters' costumes with their backgrounds. Take a look at some of her work after the jump.

Argentinian photographer Romina Ressia shoots disorienting portraits, playing with textiles and props to adorn her sitters and their environments. Her recent series, “Renaissance Cubism,” is Ressia’s mash-up of two art historical eras that highly influence her work. She clothes her subjects in the austere black and white costuming of male nobility in the age of Velasquez. But a few seemingly simple placements of props and digital edits make these photographs the stuff of dreams. One character’s wig faces the front and obscures her face, suggesting her head has revolved 180 degrees. Meanwhile, another character wears a box on her head, the opening for her eye moved slightly to the right to complicate the harmonious proportions of her face. In Ressia’s “What Do You Hide?” series, the artist plays with the idea of the mask as a metaphor for the different roles we play, camouflaging the characters’ costumes with their backgrounds. Take a look at some of her work below.

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Photography, Portraiture, Romina Ressia

18th Century, Andreas Franke, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Photography, Underwater Photography

June 16, 2015

Austrian photographer Andreas Franke combines his two passions for the camera and scuba diving in his images of a ghostly sinking world. His digital montages combine the artist's own photographs of sunken ships with carefully orchestrated sets, built above the surface at his studio. In his statement, Franke writes, "With my photographs of sunken shipwrecks, I want to pull the spectators into unreal and strange worlds. Mystified scenes of the past play within a fictional space. Dreamworlds you can get lost in or you can identify with. This creates a new and unexpected atmosphere. This work shows a lot of myself, since I am always on the lookout for stunning themes to create new images never seen before."

Anne Harris’s Translucent Portraits

Abstraction, Anne Harris, Portraiture, Renaissance Painting

March 4, 2015

Illinois based artist Anne Harris has a Renaissance-inspired technique, but there's an emotional realism in her portraits. One of her primary interests as a painter is to portray the complex relationship between other's perceptions versus our own. Her 21st century women evoke a certain self awareness in this respect. This may result from Harris' process which involves studying her own features in the mirror while she paints. Since her early work, her style has become progressively softer and more simplified.

Cayetano Ferrández Explores Shades of Humanity with ‘Gray Man’ Figures

Cayetano Ferrández, Photography, sculpture

May 13, 2017

Cayetano Ferrández, a Spanish artist/photographer, uses his “Gray Man” action figures and micro-narratives to explore varying, often bleak aspects of humanity. His work, a combination of photography, sculpture, and other mixed-media, has integrated toys since the early 2000s, with the “Gray Man” series being an ongoing project.

Abstract Photos of the Female Form by Yung Cheng Lin (aka 3cm)

3cm, Abstraction, Chinese Art, Photography, Yung Cheng Lin

August 1, 2014

The work of Taiwanese photographer Yung Cheng Lin (aka “3cm”) is a sensitive and surreal observation of the female condition. Sexuality, menstruation, maturity and birth are all running themes in his photos, an ongoing larger body of work. His critics take two sides; most praise his abstract, personal take on a woman's experience while others rejects it as objectification. 3cm rarely, if ever, grants interviews or interpretations of his work, so we can’t defend either. He wants his audience to look at his photos without interference. Take a look at 3cm’s latest work after the jump.

Uncanny Photographic Portraits by Romina Ressia

Andreas Franke’s Photographic Montages Encounter A Sinking World

Anne Harris’s Translucent Portraits

Cayetano Ferrández Explores Shades of Humanity with ‘Gray Man’ Figures

Abstract Photos of the Female Form by Yung Cheng Lin (aka 3cm)

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