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Serge Najjar Captures Urban Geometry in his Photos of Lebanese Cities

Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar notices geometric patterns in his day-to-day surroundings. Based in Beirut, his photographs capture instances of minimalist architecture with an emphasis on symmetry and repetition. But despite its focus on clean designs, his work includes evidence of human inhabitants in these austere edifices. With people peaking out of their doors and windows, the buildings come alive. The people in his work add individuality and quirkiness to his otherwise highly stylized presentation of Beirut, where cultural context is stripped away to highlight the city's modern, architectural elements.

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architecture, Photography, Serge Najjar

Hans Holbein the Younger, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Photography

February 24, 2016

Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto thinks of himself not only as a technically skilled photographer, but as a conceptual artist as well. Since his first series titled "Dioramas" in the 1970s, his works embody the mystifying fakeness that has drawn fans to natural history museum dioramas and wax museums for years. In 1999, the Deutsche Guggenheim commissioned Sugimoto to produce a similar series, "Portraits", focusing on Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London, where he photographed the most realistic wax mannequins of historical figures against a black background.

Christoffer Relander Reveals New Multiple-Exposure Portraits in “Symbiosis”

Christoffer Relander, Galerie Geo, Multiple Exposure, Nikon, Photography

May 25, 2015

Finish photographer Christoffer Relander (previously covered here) explores our relationship to nature in his ongoing series of multiple-exposed photographs. Primarily portraits, his dreamy pieces portray subjects physically merging with their natural surroundings. Relander has been working on a new series, "We Are Nature" since 2010, which was revealed on Friday night at Galerie GEO.

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.

Jason Chen’s Stirring, Woven Photographic Portraits

Jason Chen, Photography, portraits

April 22, 2016

Intricate portraits created by Jason Chen, a photographer based in Philadelphia, come from multiple images of the same subject. But as the artist weaves them together, in a process he says explores “time, movement, process, and mutation,” a new representation of the individual emerges (and the backdrop that encloses them). And somehow, their humanity remains intact.

Serge Najjar Captures Urban Geometry in his Photos of Lebanese Cities

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Portraits” Photograph Series Recreates Holbein Paintings

Christoffer Relander Reveals New Multiple-Exposure Portraits in “Symbiosis”

Erik Johansson’s Highly Fictionalized Photo Illustrations

Jason Chen’s Stirring, Woven Photographic Portraits

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