The artist I chose for the under influence project is Riccardo Bagnoli. He is an Italian photographer based in Boston Massachusetts, who specializes in advertising, fashion and portrait photography. The reason I chose this artist is because of his ability to create extremely imaginative stories in his photos and to be able to make them look like they came out of a sci-fi movie. In this project I want to use my imagination more and think outside the box in order to create stories with my images.

The main subjects of his art are people. He uses Photoshop to either manipulate their bodies or make them do a task that is unhuman like. In one of his pieces, he uses his imagination to create a setting where it looks like people coming out of eggshells, like they are just being born and are trying to discover where they are. Another one of his pieces, he is showing a person that just came from being in the water on a beach, but instead of using a towel to dry off they are wringing out their own hands and legs.

When looking at most of his artwork, it mostly made of organic shapes. He’s using the world around him to create imaginative scenarios. A lot of his work always seems to have a dark tint to them, almost making it seems like it’s coming out of a movie scene. Looking at the concept behind his pieces, he wants to make the viewer feel as if they are in an imaginative space by making ordinary settings into something that seems out of this world is what makes art stand out.