Dan Escobar, American Photographer, Title of series : Embarq, "Shark water droplets", "Ship somo more dust" and "Easter is for Andy" , fiction images taken in 2009.
Escobar uses surrealism and fantasy in these fiction images. Photo manipulation has been used to create an environment that fits in the house.
The photo below is landscape, in colour that has been made to look very rich, we are outside of a suburban house looking into a window. Inside the house we can see sharks and water inside the house. A woman who is in the first third of the photo is on a step ladder putting a shark inside the house. This photo has a humorous and surreal mood to it.
Escobar's work involves a lot of manipulation, he works for big names like EBay, Adidas, Motorola, and Adobe and does a lot of advertisements. These images were taken for the company Embarq in Mullen North Carolina, which is a telephone company, these photos were apart of an advertising scheme to encourage people to sign up with there company for faster wireless internet.
I liked that Dan's images had a grounding in reality. That they weren't totally fiction and were based in real life. For example the image of the man wheeling in an Easter Island Statue in his dressing gown, that does not happen, but the normal everyday person does go out to check the letter box in their dressing gown. For my series I want to draw on Escobar's "shark water droplets" image in terms of having a world within a medium that is the house.
"Shark water droplets"
"Ship somo more dust"
"Easter is for Andy"
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