Holy snapping duck shit.  I stumbled over the work of this amazing Korean photographer Seung Hoon Park who creates his amazing works of art using a very unusual technique.  He takes 8mm and 16mm film and weaves it into a sheet, suitable to put into a 8 x 10 large format camera, and then lugs that thing all around the world taking beautiful images of architecture and interior spaces.

If you’ve never worked in 5 x 4, or 8 x 10 large formats before, let me tell you… it’s a lot of hard work and takes a high level of proficiency to gain quality exposure and good focus.  Especially out of the studio – architecture?  Huge swings and roundabouts.  The level of difficulty here is only equally matched by the level of creativity demonstrated in trying something like this in the first place!

And the results are amazing…

Damn.  I could have totally tortured my kid by posing him for hours in cute little poses from medieval paintings… don’t know why I didn’t think of it at the time.  Now, of course, he’s getting too old and too cool for school to let me take portraits of him for hours in costumes.  C’est la vie… opportunity missed 🙂

I’ve just stumbled on the work of Australian photographer, Bill Gekas who has an obvious fondness for the works of the Great Master painters of the Renaissance, in particular the Northern Masters, such as Vermeer, Van Eyck and Rembrandt.  The results of his very photographic model/daughter are stunning.  Beautiful sets, beautiful use of light, beautiful attention to detail and absolutely beautiful results.  Almost makes me want to buy some lights and set up a studio again… almost.