Surreal photography

Bsimple.com is the conceptual photography of Misha Gordin. The human drama is staged in several thematically linked series of stark tableaux in black and white. Anonymous figures stand in crowds, grapple with giant masses, stand bound or blindfolded, gather scattered objects, dig in holes, burst into flames, or scream in mute anguish, locked into symmetrical boxes or placed against vast backdrops of infinite deserts and endless oceans. Very powerful.




Insomnium is the surreal and dream-inspired photography of Kevin Wilson. His work consists mostly of digitally-manipulated photographs, sometimes paired with text; there are hands with eyes, long halls, swimming faces, curious bodies, bits of cats, clocks, broken dolls, strange bedfellows, objects melting and blending and transforming. Many of his photographs, in true surrealist fashion, are renderings of visions and dreams half-remembered. Most are in black and white, with occasional color images -- isn't that how they say people dream?




The work of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison is surprising and touching. Like Misha Gordin, they attempt to represent human endeavours in surreal, black and white imagery, but unlike Gordin's vast, impersonal geometry of figures, their images, rough and grainy like old sepia photographs, are quirky and intimate. Dressed in rumpled suits, the figures in the scenes seem to be custodians of nature, using string and twigs and ladders and fantastic but old-fashioned machines to rake leaves, shake out carpets of grass, harness lightning, make rain, sow seeds, and dust the sky.




I'm actually a bit surprised that I don't have more sites to share. I have loads of links to wonderful photographers, but none in quite this category. Anyone have anything to add?