Julie Blackmon

Whilst browsing through xaxor.com I was drawn to the photos of Julie Blackmon - http://xaxor.com/photography/photography-julie-blackmon.html . They have a strong fantasy quality to them (some are more obviously fantastical and cut together using photoshop than others), but many of them also feel very 'real' and also humdrum. There is a dream like quality to them where you know that something is not quite right, but you can't pinpoint what. None of the humans look as though they have real solidity and weight or like they've only just appeared within the scene. And it is a scene, stylised and theatrical. There are things out of place in the shots, but clearly deliberately so - the geometry and composition of these shots is not simple, but it is clean. Clinical almost. I also very much like the colours in the shots and the flat lighting and subdued levels of contrast.

A few of my favourites below