Midnight Dreams

It has been said that it is within the mind where photographic images are created not the camera.  In this blog post I use photography to take you the viewer to a different visual place.

Surrealism started as a cultural movement in 1917 and by 1924 it became seen in the photography of Man Ray through the use of double exposure, montage and solarization.  Surrealism in photography deals with distorted reality.  There is a certain visual confusion, however, a narrative develops through examination of the components of the image and not all viewers may experience the same narrative.

So are these distorted perceptions of reality or a wider matrix of our social being turned into a visual blur of our private thoughts?  In this post I experiment with the combining of various images to create dream like photographs.  While this particular style of photography may not be something everyone wants to pursue, it can be an interesting departure from whatever you choose as the norm.  These images are my “Midnight Dreams” and a trip into the photographic world of surrealistic photography.

I think if you are an artist you are not so much interested in the reality of what you are looking at, but more about interpreting the reality that the subject projects.  All the images were shot using a Sony A7II camera, some of the distorted perceptions of reality created in Photoshop and others in camera.  I can be reached for comments at nymacc@gmail.com

Mind Shots

Are photographers trying to capture reality with a camera, or are they trying to depict their own reality?  A lot of photographers have been taught to create beautiful images.  However, if the photographer is striving to use the medium as an art form, then maybe the objective should be to create an emotional response from the viewer.

Let me start this post off with the statement...It is within the mind where an image is developed, not the camera.  The camera is only a tool in the process.  I believe that a lot of the images you produce are the result of ideas that are processed from a collection of scraps of things, fragments of words or thoughts that have been neatly filed away in a special compartment in your mind and at some point something triggers their release.   I like to refer to this as snapshots of ideas or “Mind Shots.”

The images I am presenting here are meant to be fragments of thoughts for the viewer to unravel ...each viewer of course will see or feel something different about the image.  It is an exchange of ideas between the photographer and the viewer.   Some were created directly in camera, while other are a collection of other images brought together to form the final thought that I had.  What follows is my imagination free on a digital canvas.  The images can be as simple as a study in light while others border on the surreal.

All images photographed using a Sony A7II camera…email contact nymacc@gmail.com