Fascinating Photo-Art

Photography is a great medium for recording the world around you as we all know. Pictures of your family, beautiful scenes, food, fashion, buildings, people…the list is obviously endless, but as I saw today, there is also another element, one that for some reason I hadn’t really seen before now which is a combination of art and photography. I came across this series of photo-art by Zander Olsen that had been generated in woodlands and I loved it! With this work, the person, who I will term a physical artist (a person who creates art using physical materials rather than a photographer who captures and image on film/digital) generates a piece of art and uses the medium of photography to record it as a picture or artwork. In these images Olsen has used white material to follow the horizon and create interesting optical illusions. Very cool!