Portrait nominee

Shrinking Portraits, is a series of photomontages that were made with a digital camera and a computer. Various people were photographed and placed into a computer, where they were isolated from the original scene they were in. The people were then copied, reduced in size, pasted over the original image, and reduced and copied again and again until the original isolated image was very small relative to it’s original form, and the entire new form drastically changed. In some cases the original person was placed back into the original scene, and in some cases kept isolated onto a neutral background. In all cases, the intent was to create a totally unexpected and original image by altering the familiar into the unfamiliar until the person reappears with a new identity.

My work is very well known around the world. It has been featured in thousands of articles in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. My work has been shown in many galleries, and on various TV documentaries. It has also been exhibited at the National Building Museum, the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Harvard School of Design and Architecture, the Santa Fe Institute, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Most of my work merges art, architecture, technology, and sustainable design into one unique experience. Extreme innovation is my goal in everything I create. Most of this innovation has been focused on the re-invention of the built environment, sculpture, and photography.
Michael Jantzen