Truth-Bender

Watch this clip for the first 5 seconds and tell me what strikes you immediatedly about the scenes. Do they look strangely real... yet fake? It looks like the work of an excellent photoshop artist if you stare hard enough.

Welcome to the Brooklyn studio of Lori Nix, who photographs epic scenes of destruction and grandeur, natural wonders, magnificent architecture and heroic landscapes that all have one thing in common—they're all fake. Lori Nix is an artist who bends the line between truth and illusion in her photographs. She accomplishes this by photographing miniatures and models which illuminate her interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up in Kansas.

In the video, Lori gives us a tour behind the artifice, showing us how she meticulously crafts the miniature sets using found objects and model-making materials. She makes a strong claim that gives us an idea of her desire for originality and authenticity - she doesn't apply photoshop to any of her pictures.

To view more of her pictures, visit her website:

>> http://www.lorinix.net/


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