Reality Gets Distorted


Did you notice something strange up in the sky? Are you eyes trying to deceive you? Could you still be dreaming? German art photographer Ralf Brueck shifts our sense of reality in this gripping series he called Distortion. Using Photoshop, he digitally manipulates pictures until he creates horizontal or vertical lines that appear like barcodes. “My interest is the point at which a photo becomes more than a picture and goes beyond its originally shown content,” he tells us.

Almost feels like you're watching the start of a suspenseful scene in a sci-fi movie…












Ralf Brueck's website

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