Ori Gersht is an Isreali born photographer who studied in England. He graduated with a BA in Photography and received his MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art in London in 1995.[1]
His Blow Up series is based on a still-life painting by Henri Fantin-Latour. Gersht’s still life was frozen in liquid ice and can be seen exploding and is captured using freeze-frame action photography in a series of photographs.[1]
Walter Benjamin in his essay A Short History of Photography described this type of photography as “optical unconsciousness” being able to take a photograph of something the eye cannot recognise as it is unable to process the information so quickly.
Blow Up (2006), Ori Gersht, @Ori Gersht
To see the full impact of what is happening watch the video: http://vimeo.com/23638593
Other images from the Blow Up series.
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Blow Up (2007), Ori Gersht, ©Ori Gersht
References
[2] http://www.mummeryschnelle.com/pages/oriselector.htm
Digital Portraiture, Tableau and Still Life 