Following the footsteps of David Hockey, Stephen McNally brings to you, Photographic Cubism.
Ample amount of time on Photoshop, Double Glass Optic and a lot of persistence is what makes Stephen Mcnally and his cubism style photography so good. He is a dynamic photographer from England and specializes in photographing landscapes. Inspired by David Hockney he too makes photographic cubism compositions where a number of images are used to create one image exactly like a cubist artist. After visiting David Hockney’s gallery in the United Kingdom, Mcnally was intrigued to try this technique of photographic cubism. In his images he shows street scenes as well as people and gives it the cubic effect. He finds photographic cubism challenging and wants to portray something the human vision cant see otherwise. He believes that pictures can be more than just a picture. He abides by all the rules of taking a picture but in the end he like to create something that a painter would have created on his canvas. For hours he shoots buildings and objects on the street. He shoots over a hundred unique shots. As the general people cruise by, he clicks them, again evolving focus. Later, he gathers the photo on Photoshop – over lapping pictures, constructing the picture as he puts the individuals in the scene where he needs them. Likewise he shoots surfaces from the structures to use toward the finish of the photo with various mixing modes to get his last picture. Stephen Mcnally is also a black and white landscape photographer and finds connection between the two. With both assortments of work he catches time over a period which can be a moment presentation in time with the long exposures or through the span of a few hours with the cubist work. Along these lines, the two assortments of work are associated.
Words : Shivanjali Chaudhury Photos : Stephen McNally