Rebecca Heskey Photography: Surrealism Photography and Influences

Also for my A Level photography I chose the theme of Surrealism. When first hearing the word 'surrealism' (not releasing its place in the history of art) I thought that it would include weird and wonderful photography which I really wanted to create. After looking into different artists and photographers that had surrealist work, I used some of their work to influence my own as well as my own creative thoughts. For my final piece I chose to do a small collection of photographs based on song lyrics. I found this theme to be very difficult, but I enjoyed the challenge of trying to create surreal photographs.

These photo are by Chema Madoz. After a small amount of
researching I fell completely in love with his work. His photographs
are my favorite but very difficult to recreate and gain influence from.
I used the photo on the right as influence for a few of my photos,
the idea being internal things displayed externally on the body.

This photo is by Lucas Samaras. Fulfilling my hopes of weird and wonderful Lucas' work was perfect
for what I was looking for to fit in with my work.

I used the influence of his mutilation style work and the combination of my fruit photography I had done above to create the following photos....

This painting is by Rene Magritte. I like the idea of the couple kissing regardless of the fact that
their mouths are not actually touching, something I recreated but with
different props and as a photograph.