Video: Top-top on asphalt. Positive stone installations by Iain Blake
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
British master Iain Blake has found an original way to combine his talent as an amateur photographer and the irrepressible nature of an inventor with a sense of humor. After playing a little with the pebbles on the coast, he created a whole series of funny installations in the form of stone "paws", and then photographed them in such a way as to create cute, positive subjects.
Ian Blake is a little over 40, he, as usual, has been fond of photography since his youth, and prefers not only the landscapes of his native Great Britain, as it might seem. His specialization is art photography, artistic and genre photography, in which the main semantic load is the plot, and not at all the objects in the frame.
By the way, not only installations made of stones were captured by the author. In his portfolio there are many stories, where the main role is played by characters twisted from wire. They live in the bosom of nature, where from time to time they find themselves in different situations, and thanks to this they turn out to be the main characters in Ian Blake's art photography.
Photographs of this wonderful author can be found on his website.
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