Upsidedown photographer. . . . !

Hi friends, bloggers & readers. As one of the creative thinkers at J. LaMore and jlamore.com, we collaborate everyday on new ways to push the envelope in our store, as well as our website, marketing, magazine articles, fashion, design, and, well . . , just about everything.

As a photographer, I always look for new concepts and ideas and when I saw this series of photo's from photographer Brandon Voges I had to stand up and give a bravo!

Voges did an entire series of portraits while his subjects were suspended upside down. It's a simple idea but I don't think I ever heard of anyone ever doing this before.

The portraits are eerie and kind of weird but a very cool idea in lighting and concept. When the blood flows in the opposite direction the human face can take on a bizarre look and Voges took numerous photo's of the process. As you can imagine, in the beginning there probably wasn't much change to the face but towards the end, I'll bet it was painful for the subject but that's when the imagery gets be amazing. I don't know how long each subject was hanging upside down but it would be interesting to know.

The picture shown here won an International Photography Award for originality and creativity and his show of upside down faces was hanging in a gallery in St. Louis.

Cool stuff!

Jim
jlamore.com