Artist: Pep Ventosa

Pep Ventosa is a practitioner who plays with the idea of showing an image of something we know reconstructed in a way to play with the mind, and showing us an image constructed out of one single moment in time.

As Pep Ventosa states, ‘I like exploring the space between photography and painting, using photographs as raw material to create new visual experiences.’ So although the image below is recognisable as a carousel its one we can never see with the eye alone.

In quoting Voltaire during an interview he goes on to explain an take on originality, ‘We are all part of the very old tradition of creating images: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs…and that surely has a profound influence on us. Through repetition and imitation, as concepts, we may find our unique voice, ergo be originals. Something especially difficult in photography, I think.’ I can resonate with this when at times I have felt the influence of others as copying others when in-fact the images are new and original.

My undertakings with this style have resulted in two images which at this point would rank highly likely to be included in my Work In Progress portfolio.

This process of constructing an image is simplistic at a theoretical level, blending multiple images to make the new one however, in practice the execution is far more complex.

Shai Apeloig, a Swedish practitioner, has just secured 1^st place in the Sony world photography national awards for Sweden. with his ‘Dream of the Iron Baloon’ .

Figures

Fig 1 Pep Ventosa, Carousel de la Tour Eiffel from the Carousel in the Rounds http://www.pepventosa.com

Bibliography

http://www.pepventosa.com (accessed 01/03/2021)

Interview with Pep Ventosa. https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2017/07/pep-ventosa-featured-photographer/

References

https://www.shaiapeloig.com/