SKIN 2003 index

Just as a painter combines different elements to tell a story, through advanced digital imaging techniques, Ken Weissblum blends two traditional photographic subjects: figures and landscapes. He calls the results "Metaphotography". These images are environmental nudes where the background is more than a supporting backdrop. In his work, the figure comes to life within its own world.

By unconsciously combining the primal forms of nudes with graphical elements in landscapes, he discovers new juxtapositions of shapes, textures, light and shadows to create images heretofore unforeseen. Not unlike the style of the Surrealists, he strives to shape his fantasies into pictorial dream-like realities.