{"id":2942,"date":"2012-08-28T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T07:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2012-08-28T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T07:14:12","slug":"surrealist-photography-by-katerina-bodrunova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/surrealist-photography-by-katerina-bodrunova\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrealist Photography by Katerina Bodrunova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katerina Bodrunova was born in 1985 and currently lives in Moscow, Russia. This young photographer creates artistic photographs with a surrealist element. The word “surrealism” means “above reality” and is used to describe art works that mimic the world in a realistic way, but contains subject matter that is fantastic and unrealistic. Salvador Dali’s\u00a0The Persistence of Memory<\/em><\/a> (1931) is one of the world’s most famous and iconic surrealist paintings, depicting metling clocks in a desert landscape. Bodrunova’s photography is similar in nature to Dali’s paintings, except that each art work is created using a camera instead of paint brushes.<\/p>\n

Bodrunova plans each surrealist photograph carefully, posing her models just so to get the effect that she wishes to create. Lighting has always been a very important part of photography, allowing the photographer to capture an emotional essence within a photograph. Each of Bodrunova’s photography sets is carefully lit not only to illuminate the models and objects in the picture, but to create a mood within the finished photograph. After taking several photographs, Bodrunova mixes and matches the elements to create a surrealist collage of photographs.<\/p>\n

One of Katerina Bodrunova’s most popular series of photographs is her collection of pictures of underwater dancers. The images of a couple dancing the tango underwater are becoming quite famous, popularly shared on social networks as a symbol of love that feels otherworldly or surreal. The vision of a couple dancing passionately underwater elicits a thrill from the viewer. Is the couple dancing to their death beneath the waves? Do they dance passionately with their last breath?<\/p>\n

Katerina Bodrunova is definitely an artistic photographer to keep an eye on. Her ideas and photographs are stunning and thought provoking. Visit Katerina Bodrunova’s website<\/a> for more surrealist eye candy photography.<\/p>\n