Garmonique
Posted by Alex
If the word ‘melancholy’ does not appear in this post, I am not doing my job. Sure the photographs of Garmonique are a little on the gloomy side, but that doesn’t stop them from being absolutely gorgeous. The color and composition of each is tremendous. (Can color/composition be described as tremendous? Probably not, but these shots are great enough that I willing to bend any vocabulary rules you might subscribe to.) He captures a very specific mood. I feel lost and lonely — but in a good way. Mysterious, dark and yes, melancholic indeed. That one image of the ocean reminds me a lot of the Hiroshi Sugimoto shot used for U2’s last album cover.
A bunch more on his Behance.
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Ivan says:
June 23, 2010 at 1:22 amSterile is the word that comes to mind. But beautiful!
rent says:
June 23, 2010 at 1:28 amStunning photos. Love that first one.
Scott says:
June 23, 2010 at 1:49 amI can almost hear the thousands of electronic musicians simultaneously emailing him asking for album covers…
Henri says:
June 23, 2010 at 4:00 amOh my wow.
Mark C. says:
June 23, 2010 at 5:11 amThe photos convey a very somber mood. They look like stills from an independent/artsy film. Nicely done!
rafdevis says:
June 23, 2010 at 6:54 amNice indeed. Been seeing a lot of this fog photography lately. Using clouds as a blank canvas?
Ryan Strong says:
June 23, 2010 at 8:09 amI’ve been following his work on Flickr for sometime, LOVE it. I really dig his use of fog in his photographs.
Chris says:
June 23, 2010 at 10:56 amHauntingly beautiful.
Design Police says:
June 23, 2010 at 1:38 pmGenius! Genius!! Genius!!! (sung in opera voice from mr. deeds)
J.Meyers || MNMT says:
June 23, 2010 at 2:05 pmCriminy, these are amazing…
Jake says:
June 23, 2010 at 4:46 pmthese are really beautiful. how would he go about capturing images like this?
tea says:
June 24, 2010 at 12:04 amhis work is totaly awesome.
i remember one photo that had bright sky but very dark cloud (from i gess some factory) on it. amazing.
and still, no matter how many picture he does
he still suprise me with new ones
Tardlovski says:
June 24, 2010 at 6:57 amridiculous…some of these are like something from a tarkovsky film.
msader says:
June 29, 2010 at 9:05 pmI’m really impressed by his work, his compositions and the mood he creates… it’s just amazing! absolutely amazing!
Miguel says:
June 30, 2010 at 11:09 amamazing! Thanks for sharing this great artist. I agree that his mood is perfect!!! I love those type of photos.
The one of the b&w ocean is VERY similar to a shot I just posted to my flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonuel/4747448505/
Keep posting some of this great stuff.
Cheers,
Chris Deutsch says:
July 1, 2010 at 11:26 amReally love these pics, especially the first one. It actually really reminds me of Lights Out Asia’s most recent album cover (Tanks and Recognizers). Here’s a link to the cover art…see any similarities? Think I like this photographer’s pic better though. Btw, this album is amazing, and their previous one (Garmonia) is amazing too…Jakub should def check it out…should be right up his alley.
http://bit.ly/d7ltRc