Who are they….?

Tortured Visionaries who take photos of stuff, cut it out and bung them all together in a hybrid shot. There is usually some deep story behind the image and the challenge is for you, the viewer, to work it out.

They go for months without touching their camera – they need inspiration, unable to take photos for mere enjoyment. They have to work towards a vision. A Project. Photos are just components in a larger creation.

Photoshop Gods…..

They have become masters of photoshop, they need to balance colour temperatures and hide edges of the 26 layers they’ve added to the shot.

Like the Floral and Lace Photographers, they have thousands of Photoshop brushes and textures, these help hide the edges where needed. They say they are reluctant to show their work as it’s too revealing, too personal. Yet no one really knows what they are on about unless they read the accompanying paragraph of self indulgence…

How to spot their work

Expect to see dark, brooding results – blackened cloudy skies, solemn figures grafted into impossible positions, missing heads, people in picture frames, photoshopped birds and trees, super-huge moons, slightly surreal studio lit people outside buildings…

You’ll find a lot of this work on high end websites such as 1x.com