Agan Harahap

Agan Harahap, "Garden Fresh", 2012, 8 images published on Agan Harahap's portfolio on the website Behance.

These photos use the genre effect  of surreal and constructed imagery. These photos which have been manipulated to tell a story across the frame, which looks like the relationship between the animals environment its confliction with the human one.

Digital photographs have been taken, and photo-shop effects have been used to construct the images of the animals and the supermarket. The lighting and colour has been altered to mimic the supermarket lighting.

The photo below is in Colour, Landscape photo, the two objects that take up most of the frame are a tiger and meat. The tiger is in almost the centre at the top of the photo looking up at meat in a supermarket shelf, we are looking down on the tiger and the meat. The main colours we see are brown and orange.

The context behind these photos is that Harahap wanted to show, that the relationship between animals and humans is a shifting one, he wanted to show what would happen when wild animals come into our life and in our environment.

I like that there are conflicting worlds that are inhabiting the same space. You feel as if the animals are-not supposed to be there and that they are not supposed to see the remains of other animals. Also I like that from these pictures you can almost see how these animals behave in this strange environment. I chose this precedents because of how these worlds are conflicting, and I plan to draw from this and put in my work worlds that conflict with each-other also.