Creating flaws through destruction

Throughout my project my ideas have been closely linked to the way in which something that is deemed as beautiful can be changed by either manipulation of the camera or Photoshop.

However, what caught my attention the most was the way in which artists like Jon Shireman showed the destruction of flowers, in which are perceived to be perfection.

This give me the idea to look at how I can show the destruction of perfect objects to show the flaws.

Artists Alan Sailer Alan Sailer is a high speed

photographer. He works as a microwave engineer. Alan is still kind of amazed by all the attention his high speed photography is getting, but has no interest in becoming a full time photographer.

Artist

Erik Hagman From the age of fourteen Erik Hagman started

taking photographs for his hometown local newspaper, Sala Allehanda. He was educated at the school of photography and film at Gothenburg University, he has worked as a photographer in New York and as an assistant to, Frederik Lieberath and Terry Richardson. Erik’s long experience and professional range has meant that over the years he has worked in most genres.

Today he is based in Stockholm and focuses mainly on sill lives, landscapes and cars. Erik is inspired by the sublime in daily life. He has a unique ability to capture soulfulness in still objects and environments that give his motives a distinctive sense of exclusivity. It’s usually the unaffected which is the most powerful. The greatest challenge in which Hagman says he faces is ‘always trying to communicate the beauty of the simple’.