 Oleg Dou
is a Moscow based photographer who mixes photography with design
Oleg Dou transforms photographic images of human faces, manipulating
them with computer software to produce stylized features and airbrushed
skin. When Dou’s parents, a painter and dress designer, gave him a copy
of Photoshop at age 13, he began to alter images of his school friends’
and teachers’ faces. Initially inspired by a 19th-century tradition of
capturing child funeral portraits, for which the body would be dressed
in costume and prepared in intricate detail, Dou is interested in
producing images that are both alluring and unsettling. “I am looking
for something bordering between the beautiful and the repulsive, living
and dead,” he has said. “I want to attain the feeling of presence one
can get when walking by a plastic manikin…”
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