Then, I shoot the people I want to put in the picture as they pass by, again changing focus, angle etc. I have a scene in my mind so I shoot the buildings and objects that don't move, moving the lensbaby to distort the buildings etc. In shooting an image, I stand in the same spot for a few hours. Pizza Wheel (left) and Rainford Square (right) The number of separate photographs used to create one final image looks mind boggling - how do you go about composing shots and breaking down the creation process for the final product? I want someone to say, "How did you do that?" I follow the rules of photography in composition but I like to create a picture that an artist would create on a canvas like the impressionist painters of the 19th century or Turner. I use the camera as a tool in making a picture which may be in-camera movement, cubism or black and white long exposure - I suppose I don't like boring pictures. I am not a photographer that points the camera and clicks. John Lewis Can you discuss your photographic vision - why do you like to bring painterly gestures into your photography? I said, "How did he take that shot?" In his tags was "lensbaby." The reason I use the Lensbaby is that I can get a different image from the same shot by moving the lens around - the creativity of the lens gives me multiple options. I came across Lensbaby on Flickr while researching a place to shoot. I shoot with a Lensbaby Composer with Double Glass Optic with an f/4 aperture disk. So, I try and combine both people and street scenes in my images.īling (left) and Playhouse (right) Which lensbaby products are you using to make these images and why? Lowry, another English artist, who painted match stick type people in street scenes as he went around in his daily life. I admire Hockney's work and I visited his gallery in the UK where I saw his photographic collages. Liverpool Bus What inspired you to start working in this way? The term comes from the artist David Hockney. The name Photographic Cubism comes from trying to use multiple images like a cubist artist to create an image. He creates dynamic photo collages using his Lensbaby Composer with Double Glass Optic, some quality time with Photoshop, lots of patience and a strong creative vision.Īlbert Dock I You use your lensbaby to create composite images called Photographic Cubism - can you explain what that means and where the term comes from? It must be indeed a painstaking process to put the different pieces together to make and represent a whole that is splintered but whole at the same time.Stephen McNally is an England-based fine art photographer, specializing in landscape photography and street photography. While we are talking about this concept with ease, you can only imagine how difficult it must be for the artist to not only imagine and conceptualize something like this and then work at creating it. The many faces we have and the way feel and look when we are different states of mind seems to be a big favorite when it comes to cubism. The way the music flows in a group of musicians producing the sound and the way the vibrations of the music dash and meld with each other is something that we feel is shown in cubist way of painting such concepts. In some cases, like the cubist representation of a musical instrument could be how the instrument splinters from within to give you such a lovely sound. Cubism art in the representation of the core of the apple could on the one hand represent the remains of something cute and pretty like an apple when someone has consumed it, and another facet could show the seed which has the capacity to regenerate and create a new tree to give us some more apples. The split is visible and so is the way you have imperfectly joined the two halves together. Some people feel that cubism is the apt representation of the way our soul and our inner self breaks when it faces a trauma and then joins back but it is never like what you originally were. One of the split shapes in a painting of a face can be the representation of your personal life, another your professional, yet another what you are with your siblings and yet another the child you become when you face your parents no matter what your age is or what stage your life is at. Some even call this a representation of the many faces that a person has as they deal with the different things that they face. While this may seem simple enough to some and very easy to understand, there are some who feel that these paintings are the representation of someone who has a split personality.
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