Damien Blottiere

Damien Blottiere Case Study.

Damien Blottiere is a french  contemporary fashion photographer and cinematographer who creates surrealistic collages.

Damien's influences and inspirations are his subjects, he is influenced by their skin, bones, muscles and the shape of their faces and body parts. He has always been interested in images and the visual arts. He was fascinated with analog cameras, and he then started to buy fashion magazines and vintage porn publications, secretly this was the best way he found to look at bodies and would look at them for hours.

Compared to other fashion photographers  like Ben Hassett whoa work is very glamorised; Blottiere's work is quite unique and i have never seen anything like it, he doesn't just take a photograph he makes one, he can take many photographs and create a whole new perspective on it creating depth. Damien's work could be centered around many movements, however it can be seen as stuck in the middle of pop art and surrealism, compared to how pop art was in the 1950's being very boldly coloured, Damien's work somehow lacks those primary colours but the sense of pop is still there, having images inter wined with each other create surrealistic sculpture collages which can oftern represent animals, flowers or another dimension to humans.
Damien Blottieres work techniques is that he follows the skin, clothes, bones, and the shape of faces and body parts, all the silhouette aspects. when he creates his work he has to be alone and he then lets his hands do their work, he tries to sum up what a subject has told him or what he wishes they could say. Processing his images is by taking the photographs and combining them by hand collaging them to create a whole new photograph. Damien also has work in moving image such as videos and Gifs, which are seemed to be made by stop motion using photographs.