Matt Wisniewski
Matt Wisniewski was born in 1990 and lives in New York. He creates digital collages by blending fashion and nature photographs together. The aim of his work is to create surreal images. He uses an experimental approach within his photographs that are visually mesmerising and surreal, creating an effect on the viewer that can be inspiring.
"I am a web developer and collage artist. I make stuff on the Internet do things and sometimes I use some of that stuff to make new things."
"I am a web developer and collage artist. I make stuff on the Internet do things and sometimes I use some of that stuff to make new things."
Sophie Calle - Voir la Mer
In Istanbul, a city surrounded by the sea, Sophie met people who had never seen it. she filmed their first time and took them to the Black Sea. They came to the water's edge, separately, eyes lowered, closed or masked. She was behind them. She asked them to look out to the sea and then to turn back towards her to show her their eyes that had just seen the sea for the first time.
Maia Flore
Maia Flore was born in 1988, in France. She is currently living in Paris.Graduated from Ecole des Gobelins in 2010, she joined Agence VU' in 2011.Her approach fits into a research of coincidences between reality and her imagination. Her world is a complete fabrication in form of touching and enchanting narrations, even surrealistic. This is in Sweden she begins her first series "Sleep Elevations", a journey that indulges in childhood memories.
During the summer of 2012, while her first residence in Finland, Maia Flore explores new methods of representation and narration.
These researches will then continue at the Arts Center of Berkeley, California. Resulting two series (Situations and Morning Sculptures) that continue to explore the feelings of confusion in which the photographer places her characters as her audience.
She is exposed for the first time in February 2011 at the festival Circulation (s) of the Young European Photography in Paris.
More recently, as part of a White Card from Atout France and the French Institute, Maia Flore depicts the French heritage through her dreamy world in the series "Imagine France – Le voyage fantastique" exposed in Bercy Village until September 2014.
In 2015, she wins Le prix HSBC pour la photographie.
During the summer of 2012, while her first residence in Finland, Maia Flore explores new methods of representation and narration.
These researches will then continue at the Arts Center of Berkeley, California. Resulting two series (Situations and Morning Sculptures) that continue to explore the feelings of confusion in which the photographer places her characters as her audience.
She is exposed for the first time in February 2011 at the festival Circulation (s) of the Young European Photography in Paris.
More recently, as part of a White Card from Atout France and the French Institute, Maia Flore depicts the French heritage through her dreamy world in the series "Imagine France – Le voyage fantastique" exposed in Bercy Village until September 2014.
In 2015, she wins Le prix HSBC pour la photographie.
Shot in Soho Exhibition
Shot in Soho is an original exhibition celebrating Soho’s diverse culture, community and history of creative innovation as well as highlighting its position as a site of resistance. Through a range of photographs, ephemera and varied presentations, the project reflects the breadth of life in a part of the capital that has always courted controversy and celebrated difference. It comes at a time when the area is facing radical transition and transformation with the imminent completion of Cross Rail (a major transport hub being built on Soho’s borders) set to make a landmark impact on the area. This is a rare opportunity to see outstanding images from renowned photographers including William Klein, Anders Petersen, Corinne Day, alongside other photographers whose work in Soho is lesser known such as Kelvin Brodie, Clancy Gebler Davies and John Goldblatt. The show also includes a new commission by Daragh Soden. Part movie-set, part crime scene, part unfolding spectacle, Soho in recent decades has been the centre of the music, fashion, design, film and the sex industry – a place of unresolved riddles, a place of shadows and also somewhere to call home for incoming French, Italian, Maltese, Chinese, Hungarian, Jewish and Bengali communities – perhaps here is the prototype for multicultural open London.
My Favourite Images
Matt Wisniewski - My interpretation
In this task, I tried to recreate the double exposure effect done by Matt Wisniewsk. I thought it would be quite interesting. All the photos of the subjects are taken by me but for the nature photos in the effect are stock photos. For the first set of images, I did the standard double exposure using a masking tool, and different layers to create the effect.
These images were quite hard to do the effect on which is why it's quite patchy, however for my first time doing this I think it turned out quite well and the background of a city scape contrasts very well with the natural pictures used in the double exposure effect.