As Matthew Brandt clearly points out in his interview with Dazed and Confused ‘…only through experimentation can you arrive at something new.’ And Brandt is clearly someone who follows this. His latest photographic collection titled ‘Lakes and Reservoirs’ involves experimentation of blending the natural world in with a digitally captured one.
Brandt has hiked to hill tops and spent time on strangers balconies to capture the perfect picture of these natural landscapes. Then once photographed has collected pockets of water from these lakes and reservoirs, and once taking C-Prints of the photographs, has soaked them in the collected lake water.This process has produced some beautifully obscure yet vivid shots of these natural landscapes. The explosion of volcanic-esque colours of yellows, oranges and reds mixed with the bleak colours of the lakes and reservoirs creates a strikingly mesmerising effect.
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