Apart from that they had also built a huge water tank for the festival, where underwater shootings and workshops would take place. Last year I got invited to United Arab Emirates to the XPOSURE festival (November 2017) to exhibit and speak about my work. I figured that the best way to make the fabric of the clothes and the hair of the model to appear weightless would be to shoot it underwater. The idea for this project was to have a person in a room floating weightlessly, capturing that moment of falling to sleep. Look through the images and video below to see how it was created.
This object is currently on display as part of the exhibition in Seoul Art Center until September 2019. We ended up with a 150 cm solid aluminium piece, fully functional. The model in the image, Stella, helped me bring it to life as she also works as a production designer on films and we found a blacksmith in Prague that could help us. It was easier said than done and as I realized they don’t make them particulary big I decided that the best way to make it come to life would be to build one. I thought that a giant tweezer could be an interesting object and I went on a search to try to find one. I had this idea about someone stealing stars from the night sky and I thought it would be nice if it’s done with the help of an everyday object that we all can relate to. Stellantis is a project I’ve been working on for a long time, not that it was the most complicated project but because I wanted to make sure to get all the details right. Door shot separately and placed there in post in the same perspective and light. Colors were tweaked in photoshop but that's pretty much it. I wanted to give it a feeling of being a snapshot somehow so did a high res scan of a plain negative shot on a analog Hasselblad camera that I applied on top of the image to create realistic analog feeling noise / grain. The paper plane was a real size 2 meter prop I built and all the props in the background i either rented or bought. I also had a third flash with a slight greenish filter aimed towards the ceiling giving on overall soft fill light, making the ceiling act like a giant softbox (profoto b10). From the left side I had a smaller flash where the window of the door is with a blue filter (profoto A1) aimed towards the model. I had a large silver umbrella outside the window on the right side with a flash with a warm filter that would give this soft big light from the right side on the model and environment (profoto b1x).
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