Research-Josh Sommers

 The first image by Josh Sommers is called desperation, i think that title is significant to the photo itself and can be used to relate to life itself perhaps. Looking at the image you can see that Josh is rooted to the ground but is trying his hardest to move. That can be related to life in a sense because we as people can get rooted to one location or way of life and not be able to find a way out, i think that the image sums that up very well.
It is almost like a portrait photo but again that can be disputed, their are factors that need to be taken into consideration like the location for example.
The image was made in August 2007, again like i said about Stephanie Bennett for an image to get this type of recognition is quite admirable and can help other people to try and get images as good as this.
Josh Sommers says that he got his inspiration for the photo from Patrick Von Hoff, so using aspects from a friend of his he was able to create an image that explains itself without using words.
 The work has been digitally manipulated and to a very good standard at that, the way that the roots blend into the muscle is very good and creative, you can see the veins of the wood running through his body and that is very creative and nice to see in an image.
He has used several layers to create this image, it looks like a tree to start of with and then himself. A soft brush may be used to reduce the sharpness of the image, to give it that softer more surreal feel to the image.
The images can be viewed online, Flickr to be exact, i think this is to be more in tune with the modern generation, todays younger audience don't really read newspaper so to reach out to them through the internet is a very smart way of promoting their work.