Ronny Engelmann is a 24-year-old German student and photo artist whose experimental photography work has gained recognition since 2012. He does not specialize in any specific genre and uses techniques like Photoshop compositing to create surreal black-and-white and sepia images. Bela Borsodi is an Austrian-born still life photographer based in New York known for his mixed media works featuring household objects arranged to look like separate photos combined into one image. His surreal style reflects on fashion and has been featured in magazines and commercial campaigns. John Stezaker is a British conceptual artist who pioneered a cut-and-paste technique in the 1970s, recombining existing images from

1. Ronny Engelmann
Ronny Engelmann is a 24 year old student and photo artist originally from Germany, has no specific
genre he specialises in because as quote “There are too many things in this world.” his work has only
been recognised in recent times after beginning his work in experimental photography in March 2012.
As you can see from the examples that I have provided this work is seen as contemporary in the world
of experimental photography using new forms of media such as Photoshop to create new and
innovative work, and there for seen as non-traditional. All 3 are great example of this as the top right
photograph shows this overlay of a silloutee walking though the woods in this black and white colour
gradient. Another to the bottom left has been produced be taking multiple photographs of the hands
and the cut them into the original hand using Photoshop. The top left image has been created to give
it that cartoon and hand drawn look to it with the added sepia filter, and as research shows the is most
known for working in black and white and in sepia.

2. Bela
Borsodi. is a well known still life photographer originally
Bela Borsodi
from Austria born in 1966 and now based in New York City
from the 1990s. When starting out in his career he began
working for magazine which brought photography to his
attention, shooting portraits, fashion and editorial pieces.
In terms of the design and inspiration working closely with
mixed media and aspects of fine art, graphic design, design
craft and psychology. Which reflect a surreal view of the
world. Previous works have published in magazines such as
vogue and another magazine as well as for commercial use
found in shop windows for Selfridges and hermes. With a 3d
dimension on fashion and accessorises. One of his most well
known pieces what has been seen in newspapers for its
optical illusion and created for the album cover terrain for
VLP and instead of using the contemporary way of using
Photoshop it was a painstaking arrangement of trial and error
looking at the view finder until the set up was right. Which is
a colourful image of household goods made to look like 4
separate photos in one picture. Another example could be
for document magazine and the images that where produced
in this case mixing both the real life models and illustrative
pieces that were also incorporated into the images, so reflect
the humour silly and light hearted nature to his images. So
appeal to a more up to date younger audience.

3. John Stezaker
John Stezaker is a British conceptual artist, known for steering
away from the already existing pop art that was around in the
1970s, when stezaker became most recognised, and is seen as
a college of different mediums using existing salvaged images
e.g. books, postcards, magazines, film stills and publicity
photography which have then be reformed into new works
from john stezaker. The images themselves have been created
in a using cut and paste technique “constructing a fragmented
and dislocated view of contemporary reality. The individual
images fuse and separate before our eyes, opening up new
characters, relationships and meanings.” therefore in terms
of techniques that have been us it is based on a more
traditional method to create there photographs . In one of his
series of work stezaker concentrates on portraiture
photography from that time. An example of those could be
taken from famous shots of classic film stars, and by
overlapping and cutting parts of their famous faces, however
still managing to keep the rectangular shape to the inserts and
in return creates a hybrid of ‘icons’ another example is that of
marring male and female identity into unified characters
showing this type of disjointed image, with another message
to the image. Either that reflects the shaping of the face or
the personality and feeling behind them.