Pep Ventoso collapses time on itself with these multi-layered photos of carousels

Date
1 May 2012

Pep Ventosa has mastered a paradoxically beautiful style of photography that both abstracts and gives an honest description of reality by using layer upon layer of transparent photographs of a single place or thing, i.e. carousels. The style opts for representational, which is effectively more real than literal as it takes in many more perspectives and moments over time so that the images are, yes, abstract but also more truthful. They also work like a magic-eye in the way the details reveal themselves to those who more than glance and the movement in the image becomes almost perceptible.

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Pep Ventosa: Carousels – In the Round, Carousel del Tibidabo, Barcelona

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Pep Ventosa: Carousels – In the Round, Diavolo Tibidabo, Barcelona

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Pep Ventosa: Carousels – In the Round, Carousel de Paris

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Pep Ventosa: Carousels – In the Round, The Balloons

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Pep Ventosa: Carousels – In the Round, Carousel de la Tour Eiffel

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Pep Ventosa: Carousels – In the Round, Carousel de la Belle Epoque, Paris

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Bryony Quinn

Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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