As part of the creative process I decided to research a photographer named Sarolta Bán. She's found fame as a photo-manipulator and I like the way she takes ordinary elements and by combining them, she creates various stories, personalities. The meanings of my pictures are never too limited, they are open in some way, each viewer can transform them into a personal aspect. Everyone is able to draw their own meanings from an image.
This image in particular is one that caught my attention and I immediately aspired towards being able to create this type of image.
The scale of everything in the image is definitely an aspect that I want to follow up on. The fact that the crows are bigger than the man and ironically form a gang around than the person is interesting.
What's even more interesting is the fact that the 'head crow' seems to be offering the man his hat while he maybe seeks to walk on oblivious to them.
The two crows further into the back ground seem to be the same bird but they may have been manipulated so that they are facing each other and the man.
The background itself seems to be two images stitched together (the ground and the clouds) but I think this helps add to the surrealism of the picture where the boundaries are quite visibly blurred.
The man himself has obviously been lifted from another image. In reality his photograph could have been taken with him unawares.
She generally uses similar (the same) images throughout her photographs and this actually creates a surreal experience.
Some of her images are often taken and re-contextualised to create a greater meaning in her photos and hr portfolio in general.
She uses some some of filter on her images that gives it a painted feel. When I first looked at her images I had to do a double take because her work doesn't actually resemble a photograph at first sight.
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