I’ve always been fascinated by Ovid’s classic “Metamorphoses”. It’s any image-makers dream come true, filed with wonderfully strange and impossible transformations, creatures and mythological beings.
More than any drawings or paintings I’ve seen, these photographs by Fréderic Fontenoy seem to capture the strange blend of violence and vulnerability that is to be found in these stories. And if you think these are “just” photoshopped images, apparently they are “real” pictures, all on one photo and made between 1988 and 1990, that’s over 20 years ago.
More pictures in the same series can be found here and other work by Fontenoy on his portfolio site. (Plenty of it is NSFW)
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