His series 'Blow Up', is a series of photographs showing flowers being blown up. The arrangement of the flowers is based on still life paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour. Gersht captures the moment of the explosion using a mixture of high speed camera lenses, stop motion photography and slowmotion film. Allowing us to see what the human eye alone cannot pick up.
The photos are amazing, the colours, the movement and the speed of the the essentially still photograph. He references historical periods in his photography, this particular project draws inspiration from the french revolution, and shows the violence and turmoil caused.
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