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Rocio Montoya’s Ethereal Double-Exposure Photography

Though she is known for her work in fashion photography, the fine art photography of the Madrid-based Rocio Montoya offers a interesting new look at her skills in portraiture. Montoya's subjects, generally young women, are captured in moments that range from intense euphoric emotion to still, deadpan gazes. In some images, the faces of the subjects are obscured, adding a sense of aloofness and mystery. Her works are predominately in black and white, but Montoya uses a range of effects such as double exposure to make the images more vivid. Through her techniques, Montoya brings a new vision into the images she captures.

Though she is known for her work in fashion photography, the fine art photography of the Madrid-based Rocio Montoya offers a interesting new look at her skills in portraiture. Montoya’s subjects, generally young women, are captured in moments that range from intense euphoric emotion to still, deadpan gazes. In some images, the faces of the subjects are obscured, adding a sense of aloofness and mystery. Her works are predominately in black and white, but Montoya uses a range of effects such as double exposure to make the images more vivid. Through her techniques, Montoya brings a new vision into the images she captures.

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Double exposure, Photography, Rocio Montoya

Gianluca Traina, Photography, sculpture

January 27, 2015

Italian artist Gianluca Traina blurs the boundaries between photography and sculpture with his "Portrait 360" series. The artist shoots photos of anonymous subjects, zeroing in on their faces. Using a warp and weft technique (a method of weaving often used in traditional carpet-making), he weaves the 2D images into three-dimensional busts. The blurred, digitized photos become further distorted when Traina toys with their orientation, creating a continual interplay between the photographed and sculpted faces.

Erik Johansson’s Highly Fictionalized Photo Illustrations

Erik Johansson, Photography

February 24, 2015

Erik Johansson disrupts the quiet stillness of life in the countryside with images of idyllic scenes gone awry. His photography borders on photo illustration, as Johansson takes great liberties with his imaginative editing. In one piece called Land Fall, for instance, a field drops off into an abyss like a waterfall, leaving a small cottage on its precipice. In other works, Johansson muddles the distinction between indoors and outdoors, creating optical illusions that play with our understanding of space. In addition to working on his personal projects, Johansson is a commercial photographer and the highly-polished look of his commissioned work comes through in his fine art.

Michael Massaia’s Strangely Organic Images of Chewing Gum

Michael Massaia, Photography

February 16, 2016

Chewing gum has a history that spans as far back as the ancient Greeks- that's how long it's been finding its way to the bottoms of our shoes, underneath tables, and just about anywhere else it can stick to. It's not a pretty sight. However, New Jersey based photographer and print maker Michael Massaia saw something oddly compelling in the shapes of chewed gum and decided to make it the unlikely subject of his latest series.

Lucio Carvalho’s Photo-lllustrations Insert Effects of Poverty into World’s Cultural Centers

Lucio Carvalho, photo illustration, Photography

August 21, 2014

You might get a jolt of déjà vu looking at Brazilian artist Lucio Carvalho’s photographic work. Significant images in his portfolio feature monuments of culture - a towering Tate, a sinewy Bilbao Guggenheim, a sun-reflected Louvre - contemporary institutions that have proved integral to the architecture of a city’s art scene. However, in each of these images, something is a little off – the usual foreground and background are hijacked with paraphernalia (shopping bags, STOP signs, yellow plastic chairs) that reveal no explicit tie to the museum or gallery. The images are both familiar and unfamiliar, not so much a trick of the eye as a trick of our cultural systems.

Rocio Montoya’s Ethereal Double-Exposure Photography

Gianluca Traina’s “Portrait 360” Series Weaves Photos into Sculptures

Erik Johansson’s Highly Fictionalized Photo Illustrations

Michael Massaia’s Strangely Organic Images of Chewing Gum

Lucio Carvalho’s Photo-lllustrations Insert Effects of Poverty into World’s Cultural Centers

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