Helmer-Petersen

Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who looks at shapes similarly to Albert Renger-Patzch. His work, especially his book “122 Colour Photographs” brought modernism to Danish photography and earned him a grant for a years study at the Art Institute of Chicago. He looks at the natural shapes and pattern in the world around us and creates something attention-grabbing out of it. A lot of the work he did was high-contrast and this below I have created some work in his style.

The Process

I edited the image in the style of Helmer-Petersen by firstly choosing the threshold option on photoshop.

I then edited the white and black balance using the slider to create my ideal image.

I then cropped the image to produce a square so that I could present my images in one sheet.  

I looked at inverting the image to create something new but i decided not to.

I then put all four images into one page to showcase them.