A Ghost, or a Dream: Photographer David Ruskin
Ruskin's is a technique which is unusual and mysterious. The photographer takes black and white photo's which he then hand paints. It is a process that he says is difficult to portray with color film. The outcome is otherworldly. I think that one reason I am drawn to this work, as well as this type of work is because it is mysterious and romantic. I find myself longing to be transported to this fairy land of disorienting color and fairy like landscape. It is a form of escapism I suppose, perhaps much like the travel photo's which were taken in the beginnings of photography. Imagine that you have never left your hometown because transportation systems hadn't advanced to that point yet. Y...Read more