Four Fifths Design

Designer: Eric Cahan

Eric Cahan might be considered a good designer, but he’s definitely considered a phenomenal photographer. He’s a devotee of contemporary art, and is always inspired by color and nature. This is evident yet again in the ongoing Sky Series. These pieces are captured scenes of sunrises or sunsets.

Cahan uses as many as four separate cameras in capturing the amazement housed in these colorful compositions of nature. Employing dozens of graduated filters, his objective is to create a window into a time and a place, and to play with the abstract through color gradients, shifting, and manipulation. Cahan produces chromium prints of each piece numerous times until he has reached a seamless result free of any sort of blemish. Cahan’s drive to mesh the elemental beauty of color with the hidden complexity of nature is admirable. And the results: astounding.

Designer: Luis Beltran

This small set of photographs comes from the Spanish photographer Luis Beltran. Each manipulation (assuming) is evocative and expresses a fantastical emotion. The use of color, or lack of – depending, makes for beautiful surrealism and environmental distortion.

Designer: Kim Høltermand

This series, from Denmark’s freelance photographer Kim Høltermand, depicts the architecture and spaces involved in what seems to be a deserted city. These photos are both mysterious and intriguing. I enjoy that you can take what is being shown and manipulate it into your own story based on the fact that very little truth is presented as to location, material, purpose, etc with these architectural pieces. What’s even more interesting to me is the fact that Kim’s photography is a hobby…Kim works as a fingerprints expert in the Crime Scene Unit of the Danish National Police.