Didier Illouz works with photography, graphics, digital manipulation and movies.

In his series “Any males” he photographed people from his entourage, and than -thanks to the possibilities offered by digital editing- he mixed their faces with that of an animal of his choice.

The result are hybrid beings, part man, part beasts, which recall the mystical visions of shamanism traditions, the metamorphoses of Lycanthrope, mysterious therianthropy dreams.

Usually over retouched projects end up with images that are clearly false and bad, but in this case the photograph by Didier Illouz are very elegant and well balanced, with a beautiful black and white to sepia tones, a gray-scale reminiscent photos from the pre-exposing to make a gray paper base. A great way to walk around between the visionary imagination of digital photography and traditional one.

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Category: Interview | Post tags: Didier Illouz, fotomontaggio, Ritratto