Video: Photo hallucinations by Ben Goosens
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Modern photography technologies make it possible to realize the most daring ideas that come to the unhealthy minds of talented photographers. Many of them create truly amazing fantastic landscapes, rather like hallucinations. Ben Goosens, who has won numerous awards and international fame in this field of photography, is creating something similar.
Maybe these photos don't seem as provocative as those used in Andrea Giacobe's custom ad. Maybe darker than Alexander Crispin's hodgepodge of all tastes, or more sophisticated than Rodney Smith's friendly surrealism. But in these hallucinations from Ben Goosens there is something from Carlos Castaneda and the visions described by him. Who knows, maybe all this is happening around us, but we do not notice.
As for the author of these photos, Ben Goossens was born in Belgium. There he worked as an art director for over 30 years. After retirement, Ben decided to try his hand at surreal photography, and quite successfully. His work has brought him international recognition and all sorts of awards, for example, a gold and silver medal at one of the largest international exhibitions Trierenberg Super Circuit. And of course, publications in art magazines. For example, there is such a magazine, Photo Art International, so in one of its issues, as many as 10 pages were allocated to his works.
Ben Goossens, of course, did not open a new milestone in photo manipulation and surrealism, but there is in these various hallucinations something eerily attractive.
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