Luke Gram

Luke Gram is a Canadian Photographer who creates serene images by combining landscape imagery with silhouettes. His technique of editing his photographs is known as double exposure. Gram travels the world to take photos of landscape and portrait imagery and shares his story on Instagram.

Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and theatre designer who spent most of his life in France. He is most famous as a painter because of his paintings such as the Weeping Woman, The Old Guitarist and Girl Before a Mirror.

Pablo Picasso began to experiment with new things such as light painting as you can see below which began in 1949.

Kensuke Koike

Kensuke Koike is a Japanese contemporary visual artist who buys images and then distorts them by cutting out sections and replacing, rotating and cutting our sections of the images.

My Ideas

I really like the idea of replacing the silhouette of a person with an image linking to personal identity. I also like the idea of Picasso’s light painting because it can be used to present personal identity using words or drawings that could be completely planned or random. Lastly, Kensuke Koike’s method of showing identity is very interesting and I want to attempt to recreate this using the images I will edit from Luke Gram.

Comparison

Luke Gram’s way of expressing identity is through linking people back to nature. He removes their features and replaces it with a scene that everyone can relate to and enjoy. However, Pablo Picasso shows his personal identity by drawing images with light which would not have been seen if he had not been using his camera. I also believe that Kensuke Koike’s method of representing identity is very unique and interesting because it shows a false identity and different emotions and ‘people’ in one persons identity. I believe Luke Gram is expressing the general link of humanity to nature but Picasso and Koike express personal identity and how it differs with everyone.