Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Léo Caillard - Hipster in Stone



Léo Caillard is a photographer whose digital manipulations call into question the perception of reality. Caillarrd gives viewers a chance to reflect on the contemporary world by contrasting with the surreal or ancient. A graduate of the École des Gobelins in 2008, Caillard started hid career assistanting to some of the biggest photographers in France and abroad.


The series Hipster in Stone portrays classical statues from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome and dons in a hipster wardrobe. Simple changes and additions of clothing transform each figure’s timeless grace into cool aloofness.  



In this series Caillard and Alex Persani (whom he collaborated with for this project) seem to draw similarities between the ancient figures depicted and modern perceptions of beauty in the twenty first century.  








1 comment:

  1. Just out of curiosity, who's the statue of the third and fourth pictures of this blog of?

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