I chose Flora Borsi, a hungarian photographer, her work explodes with feathers, fur, mysterious clouds of smoke, and rich color. Fanciful themes, gorgeous people, and incredible situations characterize her photography and Photoshop art. “My favorite thing about photo manipulation is that I can create things that don’t exist…that physically are impossible,” she says, this just shows her creativity and how much dedication she has to create photographs like this. 

In the photograph above you can see the relation to my work with the objects & bodies theme. Flora wants to fake reality, photography is the perfect medium for her to express her feelings and create visions. In my opinion she wanted to show her audience that the model is not the most important subject but the clothes are. The photograph explores questions of female representation and the relationship between body and self.

In her series “The Real Life Models”, Borsi imagines what the models of seminal works of art may have looked like, and depicts them next to the original works. The model for a Picasso portrait has the distorted head and enormous eyes of the painting depicting her. The model for a Modigliani work has the exaggerated long neck that was a hallmark of Modigliani’s women but still looks like a lovely, actual woman one might see on the street. Without a doubt, technology is a driver of these ideas and the flame that lights Borsi’s imagination. “I can fake the reality, create art without limit. Even if something would be impossible in nature and real life, it’s a perfect tool to make an image look like it was real, without question. I don’t need to make a stage for the photographs, like the famous photographers in history.”

With her influnce of post production, I sat down and watched videos on youtube about editing and cutting heads out of the picture and how to do it so the photograph doesnt look too tacky.

Even in this photograph above, she shows us a photo that is explicitly not realistic however looks like it could be because of the human figure that we cannot really see but we know underneath this beaten vest there is a human being. There is not much major retouching made as the person is simply hiding within the vest top. It does look and seem surreal, it gives me a spooky vibe aslo, just like having goosebumps in a way. The background seems to match the colour palett which in my opinion is earthy and in a way dirty and rough. I will take some inspiration from Flora but in my own style, Ill most likely go out and doa photoshoot on the street with high-end/street fashion garments.