Nicholas Kennedy Sitton is a very exciting young photographer based in San Francisco. He is currently pursuing a BFA in photography at the Academy of Art.
Nicholas’ work has a beautiful and often surreal quality to it. He leverages techniques such as multiple exposure to great effect, creating images that appear to be from a sort of dream-state. His photos have a sombre, haunting quality to them, with an incredibly tangible sense of mood.
I find some have an almost cinematic feel to them.
Another thing I find striking about Nicholas’ photography is the way he seems to really capture a sense of intimacy with his subjects. He obviously has a way of making people feel extremely comfortable in front of a lens. You don’t feel as if you’re looking at a photo of a person but as if you are actually looking the subject dead in the eye or as if you are sharing an intimate, emotional moment of their lives.
Nicholas has a very unusual and artful approach not only to his photography but also to his post-production. Instead of using post-production as a means of boosting details, colours and such Nicholas employs post-production as a means of opening up a whole new vantage point on the scene.
Here is a really interesting series of experiments he did, creating an Inception-esque sort of warped reality. In them he takes scenes that would otherwise be somewhat unremarkable and gives them a very striking treatment.
Nicholas will be someone to keep an eye on in the future.
Check out his blog and Flickr account below:
Greg Browne
Greg Browne, contributor, originally from the east coast of Canada, now calls London, UK home.
Greg completed postgraduate studies in graphic design at London College of Communication. His design interests lie in typography, identity, editorial, graphic illustrations and modernism. He is also very passionate about film, photography and music.
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