More Camera Obsura Photos By Abelardo Morell.

In this month National Geographic came across some different photos by Abelardo Morell still using the camera obscura technique but now in a slightly different way but still as interesting as ever. The images below he's produced using his tent camera process which I'll explain in  more detail in a second.

Images Taken From www.abelardomorell.net

The way this differs from his previous work I've studied is that he's made himself a light proof tent with a periscope mounted on top which projects the outside image down onto the floor covered by the tent which he then photographs. What I thinks good about this approach is that he's incorporating the text of the landscape into the scene because the majority of the time the surface he is projecting onto is also going to be included in the view in some way be it a beach, forest floor or a concrete jungle as you can see in the above images. In this way it gives an extra dimension to the scenes he captures or in other case gives a more familiar view that something a little bit different which makes you take that all important second look at a photo you thought you new. This relates well to what I've aimed at with my own work on National Parks wanting people to take more notice at when they look at a scene they think is familiar. To see more of his work take a look at his website abelardomorell.net its really worth your time as its so very different.