Artist Research: Christophe Huet

Christophe Huet is another example of a fantastic surrealist photographer who uses "touching up" photographs as an artform. He "composites computer generated art and photography in order to melt the barrier between waking life and the dream world within his wonderfully surreal advertisements". (Creative Tempest, 2009) He uses a large amount of heavy digital manipulation in order to create his final images. There is a lot of planning however that goes into his ideas before capturing the required subjects. Below is a break down of step-by-step how he created the above image, taken from his website. It shows how the photo has been taken and developed on several layers and manipulated digitally using software. 

   


   


  

Obviously, when creating my images I am not nearly as skilled as Huet in using PhotoShop software, but I will push and develop my skills throughout this process. A lot of his photos tend to have a hidden meaning or comedic, slightly ironic angle behind them. For example, the photo below is Superman shown to be extremely vulnerable and weak. The hidden meaning behind this photograph then could be that not everybody is indestructable.

I want to create photos that don't necessarilly have hidden meanings, but where I'm using certain objects and people I could perhaps link the animals traits with that of the human. For example, maybe pigs and greediness.