The Dark Side of Nature (12 photos)

At first glance, Simen Johan's photographs and sculptures remind me of the beauty and grandness of the great outdoors. Upon further review, I get this eerie feeling that something dark and strange is going on.

Johan doesn’t use a digital camera; everything he shoots, he does on film. Each of his images come from as many as one hundred negatives. The images are then scanned and put together digitally to create masterpieces of light and shadow. It’s a technique that has been described as “painting by photography.”

“Many of my landscapes, characters or animals don't actually exist, but are combinations of several different places, people or animals. The process involves using digital tools like brushes, pencils and color adjustments, requiring the user to have knowledge of light, perspective, color and composition, and to have rendering/illustrating skills that photographers generally don't have." -Simen Johan

Simen Johan's website

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Comment by BLOGitse on December 19, 2009 at 8:02pm: "...don't actually exist, but are combinations of several different places, people or animals"
That's it!
But the point is to do mix and edit with style! This guy knows how to do it!
Great art!

Comment by Kristine Allen on December 19, 2009 at 6:41pm: The only one obvious to me are the owls. Pretty amazing.

Comment by Kwaidan on December 19, 2009 at 5:50am: This works are masterpieces!

Comment by Kendall Erin on December 18, 2009 at 2:48pm: the owls are great...