Ruud van Empel (born 1958 Breda, The Netherlands) cuts, glues and manipulates his digital photo collages to create a new world – an ideal, fairy-tale world.
These high gloss and richly saturated photographs, inhabited by seemingly “lost” characters including prepubescent children and digitally collaged landscapes, create a striking balance between the real and the unreal, the possible and the impossible. The photographs function as uncanny digitalized “fairytales”, created through the mastery and manipulation of digital technology, confounding the conventionally sensitive emotional cues often coupled with this subject matter. All of the photoworks are comprised of hundreds of individual photographs that were taken by the artist himself, then digitally compiled to produce what, in reality, would be impossible to capture in one, or even multiple film exposures. The juxtaposition of these hyper-realistic elements, lushly filled backgrounds with the haunting gaze of children, creates a mysterious relationship between two conspicuously diverse visual worlds.
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