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Trapped between realms: The ghostly photos of Christopher McKenney
09.12.2014
11:02 am
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Human figures, their identities concealed with sheets, half their bodies missing, what remains suspended in air, as though they were transitioning between planes of existence, or between life and death, or, more horrifyingly, trapped between them. The eerie photography of Wilkes-Barre, PA artist Christopher McKenney recalls the portentous surrealist otherworlds of De Chirico and Magritte. His works, as you’ll see below, are dramatically staged, horrific tableaux. Knowing nothing about his working methods, I assume these are digitally crafted, though it’s far from impossible to achieve identical effects with film and darkroom skill.

McKenney, unsurprisingly, maintains a presence on Flickr and Instagram. Both are well worth following.
 

 

 

 
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Posted by Ron Kretsch
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09.12.2014
11:02 am
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