For this week’s challenge, Diane invited us to bring some surreal portraits to the forum. As expected, things went above and beyond. Several of our talented members delighted us with some twisted imagery. Just a little warning before you scroll further, you might end up feeling inspired to share some bold surreal portraits as well. If so, click here and participate — it’s never late for doing so.
Author: Federico Alegria
Federico has a decade of experience in documentary photography, and is a University Professor in photography and research methodology. He's a scientist studying the social uses of photography in contemporary culture who writes about photography and develops documentary projects. Other activities Federico is involved in photography are curation, critique, education, mentoring, outreach and reviews. Get to know him better here.
With every week, we’re presented with more intricate and fancier words. For the current instance, Diane invited us to reflect upon the meaning of the word “ethereal” — while accomplishing visual representations of such notions. Few guidelines were given in this call — making it even trickier, even for those rich in experience. Oh, but […]
Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community wrap-up! A pool filled with the oneiric stuff from which imagery is made, that’s how I envision dreams nowadays. Practical, relaxing, and easy to picture in my mind. Almost surreal itself, as a pond waiting for a cliché shot to be made. Regularly seen as ominous and premonitory, […]
Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community wrap up! I’m literally sitting on the ground while writing this newsletter, and I realised something curious about contrast in our photography. If something defines our most-beloved craft as anything close to language, is the use of contrast for highlighting that to be said on the shot. Now, […]
Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking photography wrap up! Next in our visual metaphors set, one of the hardest themes I’ve ever seen! Diane went all in and made the call for “abstract emotions”. Surprisingly, she used an article I wrote back in 2018 about abstract photography and how to get inspired when approaching this […]
Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community wrap up! Next in our visual metaphors – hidden messages! A theme that has triggered some nice responses — starting with Patrick who said the following right after Diane’s call: This is another one right up my street , can’t wait to see what you guys come up […]
