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Russian production studio creates dramatic photo manipulations of local city centers

2019-06-14T15:56:00-04:00

Architecture is often subject to photo manipulation, especially as it has been made easier through increasingly sophisticated imaging software. The most recent set of examples that we have come across are the creations of Russian production studio Lestnica.

Headed by Artem Prudentov, the photographs are of Russian cities from imagined perspectives with dizzying realism. Most of the photographs in the series have a single, unaltered architectural focus which greatly contrasts the elastic world around it. Each image the product of several hours of labor and made up of several photographs, but the high quality of the final products make the process more than worth the effort.

Lestnica adopted a style of photo manipulation akin to that of previously featured Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş.

Artist creates real-life "Inception" style photography

2016-01-28T18:33:00-05:00

Turkish artist Aydın Büyüktaş has created warped, three dimensional photographic portraits of various cities, buildings, and landscapes around the world that bring to mind both the trippy dreamscapes of "Inception" and the curved future dwellings in "Interstellar." According to his Facebook page, the works are "inspired by Edwin Abbott's book 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.'" Here's a sampling:

His "Parallel Universes 2" series, meanwhile, seemingly mirrors and transports its largely architectural subjects:

Squared: digitally altered mash-ups form imaginative architectural photo series

2015-09-30T15:05:00-04:00

For the 'Square in Square' series, Brooklyn-based photographer Oliver Michaels creates geometric images by combining various architectural elements into one piece digitally. His photo collages are neatly arranged into a square and are made of "parts of different buildings captured in a chosen area or route".

Here are a few more of the London-born photographer's digital mash-ups: