Tim Simmons: The Uncanny’s Double Register
Photographer Tim Simmons finds the decidedly uncanny in ordinary landscapes.
The thing that strikes me so strangely about Tim Simmons’ photographs is not their portrayal of the uncanny in natural and manufactured landscape, but rather their weird visual relationship to contemporary 3d renderings for game worlds.
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It’s interesting to think that Simmons, by so adeptly capturing these deeply strange moments of nature, finds the real world to be in a sort of unexpected harmony with what we incline to think of as its fantastic portrayal in games and CG.
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