Chema Madoz

Chema Madoz is a Spanish photographer who is best known for his black and white surrealist photographs. Madoz is a cleaver man by carefully creating work with optical illusions. "Whatever is shown, is unlike the reality of the objects" quoted Chema Madoz. Looking at Madoz's work I can see creative photographs to get me to start to think about how and why he decided to do this.

This is one of his pieces of work which links well with my sunglasses shoot because they are both focusing on the reflection to create an interesting image. What I like about this image is how basic it appears but still gets his viewers thinking. Therefore, when I gaze upon this image it makes me wonder what message he is trying to get through his audience. Could the message be that every time we are looking into the mirror, at our reflection, all we are seeing is a puzzle that we piece together each morning, being a metaphor for women who wear make-up; looking their best for the day ahead? Or could it mean that every time we do it we are risking seeing a piece which we might never get back again. Therefore, this message could resemble the depression and sadness that we experience in our lifetime, which can break a person or in this case break a piece of the puzzle. I feel he has decided to use a puzzle as one big metaphor toward humans because when all the pieces are fitted together it becomes a strong and pleasing image but when a piece is missing it becomes broken, unfinished or unwanted.

Chema Madoz doesn't just link well with my sunglasses shoot it also links well with my Halloween shoot because both of these shoots are filled with unrealistic objects, meaning that it is not every day you get a shocked pumpkins hiding in the autumn leaves or round eyeballs popping out of woolly gloves.

Here is another one of his images that links perfectly with my Halloween shoot because Madoz has photographed it looking as tatsy as a sweet, which you think you can eat but realistic you cant. Looking at my images from this shoot I have not made my eyeballs look tatsy but instead I have tried to blend them into nature.