Hand painted photographs

Fashion photographer Shae de Tar creates dreamy images that feel like spellbinding illusions. With her technique of handpainting photos she creates images that remind us of 1960′s concert posters. In her work, Shae de Tar combines well-curated clothing, vibrant colors and sensual female figures with a surreal aesthetic that gives it an atmospheric touch of […]

How old were you when you decided Photography was your passion and can you tell us how you found yourself a career as a photographer? When I was a teenager I often would paint on magazine pages and make collages, but I was always painting on an image I found that belonged to someone else. It was just a creative outlet and I didn’t think of it as art or anything serious. Around that same time, I stumbled upon Peter Beards collaged and painted photos of his life in Africa. I remember meeting…

Shae paints over her photographs. A multi-talented one, she is! LINK: SHAE ACOPIAN DETAR

Handcoloring your photographs not only allows you intimate contact with the photo but also a great deal of creative freedom.

Handcoloring is the technique of adding color to a black and white photograph. The process dates back to the earliest days of photography and its purpose was to add realism to the prints.

La photographe italienne Cristina Coral, est à l’origine d’une série de photographies intitulée Melt in Color dans laquelle est a immortalisé le

Two subjects I prefer not to write about in this blog are my day job and artificial flowers. Today I make an exception, perhaps because it’s my final day working in China, or perhaps b…

(click for larger image) Both images by and courtesy of Shae Acopian Detar. I met Shae back in 2010, when […]

Why do certain fantasy landscapes appeal to us and others don’t? Often, it’s easy to conclude that they remind us of a distant past; a time and place were everything was ok. By the same token, Shae DeTar’s hand-painted photographs are soothing because they evoke a wishful fantasy that’s somehow connected to what we know. Colour and composition are so elegantly chosen, a deep-rooted serenity overcomes us; one that we have forgotten in our busy, everyday lives. Through merging photography’s…

Alexandra Valenti is a photographer and artist.