Simen Johan born in Norway in 1973, who darkly explores the human proclivity towards fantasy and our attempts, knowing or otherwise, to alternate realities for ourselves. Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, Johan creates each of his images from as many as one hundred negatives, having first constructed or discovered each element and photographed it on film. Across his body of work, the viewer is urged to ponder the relationship between the real and the artificial or imagined.
via artsy.net
At first I thought these were dioramas from a natural history museum (an amazing natural history museum) because they had that unsettling combination of very real and very fake. I was a little relieved, but also a little disappointed, when I got to the caption.
