Hold on to your head: Matt Wisniewski's surrealist portraits will blow your mind

Date
20 August 2012

Channeling the beautiful surrealist abstractions of John Stezaker is 22 year-old New Yorker Matt Wisniewski. Like his legendary predecessor, Matt constructs mind-bending collages that fuse portraiture and landscape photography to beguiling effect; recreating the vastness of a mountain range within the confines of a human head and allowing the sea to flow like delicate tresses round the shoulders of his subject. Unlike Stezaker, Matt uses digital techniques in place of traditional cut and paste allowing a greater level of finesse, but no less visual punch.

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Matt Wisniewski: Landscape

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Matt Wisniewski: Landscape

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Matt Wisniewski: Landscape

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Matt Wisniewski: Landscape

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Matt Wisniewski: Landscape

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Matt Wisniewski: Landscape

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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