Frank Machalowski
ghosts of... (Series)
DESCRIPTION
I often visit flea markets looking for old cameras or something like this. One day I saw a stand from a Frenchman who was selling a mass of very old photographs, only portraits. I bought some pictures from him. I had an idea in mind to do something with old vintage photographs but didn't know what. When I viewed the pictures at home I decided to transform all these people adding them to the present.
It's about time, the past and the present. All people in these pictures are strangers from the past, most probably dead for a long time. Now they all come together in the present, like ghostly appearance on different locations and cities.
For these series, I combined two photographs - one picture I took with my own self-made anamorphic pinhole camera and one old vintage photograph. The pinhole images are all 6x6 film photographs which I developed on my own and scanned the negatives. Then I also scanned the portraits. At the end, I combined these pictures and added some 'ghostly' effects.
The name of this series is 'ghosts of...'
AUTHOR
-born 1971
-study and work as buisniess consultant until 2011
-since 2011 freelance photographer and artist
2013 - Grand Prix de la Decouverte - 1st Place in Architecture
2015 - Monochrome Awards - 1st Place in Photomanipulation
2015 - Golden Camera Award - 1st Place in Professional Architecture
2015 - Fine Art Photography Awards - 1st Place in Architecture
2015 - The Royal Photographic Society - Silver Award in International Print Exhibition
2016 - Monochrome Awards - 2nd Place in Architecture (Professional)
2016 - London Photo Festival - 1st Place in Abstract FineArt
2017 - London Photo Festival - 1st Place in Architecture
2018 - Monochrome Awards 2017 - 1st Place - Fine Art Photographer of the year
2018 - Int'l Photography Award (IPA) - 2nd Place - One Shot Harmony
2018 - ND Awards Photo Contest 2018 - 1st Place - Long Exposure
2019 - Sony World Photography Awards 2019 - Shortlist - Open Architecture
2019 - All About Photo Awards 2019 - 3rd Place
2020 - San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards - Gold & Gallery Award
2021 - Sony World Photography Awards 2021 - 2nd Place - Professional Architecture & Design
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