Video: Austin Tott's Applied Semiotics: Tiny Tattoos Photo Series
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the series of photographs "Tiny Tattoos", the American photographer invites the viewer to play associations, deliberately separating the foreground and background of the photograph, emphasizing the difference between 2D graphics and 3-D image, but at the same time linking them with a common theme that transforms each shot into a small dynamic story.
Seattle-based young photographer Austin Tott is passionate about conceptual and commercial photography and loves to "mix surreal ideas and compositions with open emotions."
As part of one of his latest projects, Tott took a series of photographs in which small “tattoos” on the photographer's hand enter into a kind of dialogue with the thematically selected background of the image.
"Tiny Tattoos" are small outline drawings hand-drawn on the skin of the inner side of the wrist in black ink.
Choosing a subject for another photograph, Tott makes a mini-illustration (usually these are the most ordinary household items: a bicycle, an umbrella, a postal envelope), finds a suitable landscape or creates the necessary scenery and, simply stretching out his hand, combines two plot plans in one frame.
A "tattoo" with a tiny fox lives on a background of firewood stacked in a woodpile, quotation marks limit an absent quote against a background of piles of heavy books, a sailboat is ready to sail on the surface of a geographic map, and a keyhole is waiting for a suitable key to be picked up for it.
A simple idea evolving from photography to photography, a romantic-vintage color scheme and skillful work with light create a series that, despite its formal monotony, is interesting and pleasant to look at in search of correspondences between the drawn hero and his three-dimensional "habitat".
The technique with a two-dimensional image, which smoothly "fits" into the photograph, has recently become very popular, although more often such photographs play on formal rather than thematic similarities. For example, photos of the open Internet project Sleeveface bring to life the images on vinyl envelopes.
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