Yasser Radwan

Yasser Radwan is another digital artist I found on DeviantArt. I love how his work sticks to a similar theme and style, as I think it really helps bring his portfolio together. Unfortunately Radwan uses stock images to create his work, so credit can only go out to him for the photomanipulation aspects of these images, but his technical skill is very good, and I find his concepts intriguing.

http://stigmachina.deviantart.com/

Peterio

Peterio is a surreal digital artist I found on DeviantArt. There is no information about him, or what he does on his page, except that he is another amazing Polish artist (seems as though most of the great surrealist and conceptual artists are from Poland).
I find his work incredibly appealing, as they are all the same subject; a head and shoulders portrait of a man, but he does them so differently and creatively that each piece makes you think of a different emotion or feeling. He classes his work as 'photomanipulations' as they usually start off with a portrait of himself, which he then severely edits and draws over to create his art. I love how dark the emotions are in them, and I find his work very soul baring.

http://peterio.deviantart.com/

Dan Mountford

Dan Mountford is a graphic designer from the UK and is the master of double exposures. The spectacular thing about his images is that he creates them all in camera, which means lining up content takes extreme care and effort. I really love his images as he relates both exposures together really well and aligns them so beautifully. His graphic design background means that he has a real eye for the composition and design aspects that go into his images.
For my second alternative process, I want to look into doing a double exposure using black and white film. It is easy to create a double exposure in photoshop, so I want to challenge myself by doing it all in camera. For my double exposure I am taking inspiration from Mountfords images, as I really adore the combination of studio, and location images, so I will be taking a portrait in the studio and then take landscapes or a macro photograph to coincide with it.

http://www.flickr.com/people/danmountford/

Michael V Manalo

Michael V Manalo is a digital artist from the Philippines who creates strongly emotional photo composites. I really like Manalo's work, as it has a very charming simplicity which really appeals to me, as it means focus on the emotion behind the image, rather than the content and detail. The only dissapointing thing about Manalo's work is that he primarily uses stock images, and only takes a few of the photos himself.
"There were a lot of emotions - pain, happiness, love and warmth, glory, success, failures, torture, jealousy, excitement, rage, pride. All these converged and met at a common point in time and space and created who I am, what I want to explore and what I hope to achieve." - Michael V Manalo

http://theflickerees.deviantart.com/

http://www.wix.com/theflickerees/michaelvmanalo#!

Ben Goosens

Ben Goosens is a digital artist from Belgium who worked as an art director in advertising for 35 years. After retirement he began creating experimental / surreal photomontages as a hobby. Unlike many surreal photographers work, Goosens images are very crisp and vibrant with an obvious 'advertisement' style, which is presumably influenced by his career in advertising. I really love his concepts, and he has some very interesting ideas, however I prefer the the 'grungier' style of surreal photography.

http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=209032

Denis Olivier

Denis Olivier is a French photographer who does amazing film photographs of landscapes, people and objects. His long exposures of landscapes are magical, and the contrast and quality of the film really add to his style.

Olivier comes from a very artistic background, both his parents were artists and he was interested in painting and sculpture from a young age, eventually getting into photography and studying art at university. In his website bio he talks about how his photographic background began:

"My first encounter with photography took place when my parents performed some strange static dances with an object in front of their face. Later they would close themselves up in a special room under the house for long periods of time, and no one was allowed in. They diligently made sure that they were left to their own devices while inside. One day I was given permission to enter the room and allowed to stay, but on the condition that I didn't move or went out. I remember there was a unique chemical perfume and a red light.

I was bewildered: my parents appeared flashing a white light on a piece of paper using a strange apparatus. Then they dipped it into a clear liquid and Behold! I couldn't believe it, a miracle! They were wizards who created pictures."

I really love the way he talks about his parents photography, it captures the magic of the old film days so beautifully, and adds a touching child-like innocence to his story.

 My favourite works of his are his surreal compositions; his work is in my eyes the definition of 'surreal'. His series is called 'Dreamspace' and includes around 50 composites.
I really love Olivier's style, and his dream like images have a very magical aura to them. There is something about them being film like that makes them appear more surreal, as there is little to no hint of photoshop.

Check out his website for more amazing images, he has a huge range of genres: http://www.denisolivier.com/

He also has a range of interesting interviews, which can be found at his site, one of my favs is this one: http://www.nd-magazine.com/denisolivier/index.php

Sarolta Bán

Sarolta Ban is a surreal photographer from Budapest, Hungary. She does amazing photomanipulations by combining ordinary elements to create a dreamlike fantasy. There isn't much I can say about surreal photography, as more often than not the interpretation is up to the individual viewer. Here is what she had to say about her work:

"I like using ordinary elements and by combining them, I can give them various stories, personalities. I hope that the meanings of my pictures are never too limited, are open in some way, each viewer can transform them into a personal aspect. So I’m happy if different people find different meanings in my images."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindazonaltal/