Could surrealist René Magritte be a source of inspiration for photographer Bela Borsodi who creates artsy fashion and still life phots? Maybe! At least, we can find some visual parallels. The photographer was born in 1966 and had always had a passion for fashion photography, which he pursued after his studies in graphic design and fine art photography. Naked women pose in front of his camera. This also reflect his fascination for fine art. In his photographies he also integrates his creative skills as a graphic designer which often results in a surreal looking impression.
How does he achieve to create dynamic situations by playing with silhouettes? How did he paste the model that wore Fendi fur shoes and leather into the silhouette of the cow whose fur and leather had been probably used to create her garments. Magic? No, actually not. It is his expertise in graphic design and his imagination that are the basis for such motifs. By the way, this example was printed in the Hunger Magazine. And also further well-known names of this industry and the fashion field are his clients: New York Times Magazine, V Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Teen Vogue, Bloomingdales, Galeries Lafayette or Puma, Rocawear, Nike and Yalook.
The models often become the setting of his works, as you can see in the utterly ironic picture of a blond diva, who is anonymizing her face in the quadripartite series “Blonde Ambition”, where she has been made to look like a kind of furniture. Bela Borsodi’s mix of still life photography and fashion photography becomes very clear, here. Since 1999 he probably has stopped calling himself a 100% fashion photographer.
One of his most striking picture series is “Foot Fetish”, which consists of 12 parts: http://www.belaborsodi.com/editorial/footfetish#1
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