Eva Lauterlein - This is one of the images taken by the photographer Eva Lauterlein in one of her series called 'Chimeres' created from 2002 to 2007. The word chimeres is french for 'figments of the imagination and guessing by the way this technique has been created in her work, this is how she wants you to view her subjects.. through your imagination. The series was thought through by Eva as she was trying to find the line between attraction and repulsion. Me personally, I am curious to know whether this was directed at the subjects being manipulated like this, wondering if they are being judged by the audience to whether the viewer is attracted or replused. The odd expression on the subjects face is due to the technique 'manipulation' done through photoshop. Eva could have up to 40 different images being manipulated in to eachother to create one final image like the one shown above. Eva would of used a similar technique like opening up her images in to photoshop, probably not all but the ones needed for that particular area, she would have over lapped an image over another but only one image would have been shown and using the paint brush tool, would have painted over the image to reveal the image underneath, merging them together. She would have done this to create a full image of someone that doesnt excist, I believe the technique behind the work of Eva Lauterlein is extremely creative and her ideas behind her work but I believe negative comments could arise from this work as I find the manipulated models are quite disturbing and it offends me, knowing they have been manipulated to look like that, that there are people in this society who look like that generally and she is causing them to be forced on to this line between attraction and repulsion. All the models within this series do not hold happy expressions almost like its not okay to look abnormal.
