Negative photo

Thomas Ruff

Two faces in one, half of which is negative. Does this mean the non negative side is positive?

The negative picture illusion occurs when your brain creates a photo negative of an image. Learn why this happens and what it says about the visual system.

In these series I was concentrating on how would people look like with light working the other way around. So what we normally see as dark would appear bright and what usually is light would be dark. As a bonus I also added colours of space (I love the palette of the galaxy) and in some cases animals to make these pictures look more interesting.

My brain hurts.

b&w film photography Fall 2012

Cyanotype print from an x-ray and a contact positive

Ritchelly Oliveira is a Brazilian visual artist, predominantly working in the realm of portraiture. His images depict emotive studies of usually male figures, sometimes layered...

It was just a year ago, that I sat in the workshop,Turning Toward Books: Creating Artist Directed Publications, taught by the very capable Lauren Henkin. All the participants came away energized and excited about creating beautiful artist handmade books and we were filled with possibility. A year later, one of those workshop participants, photographer Linda