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Alberto Seveso is a freelance illustrator and digital photographer based in Bristol, UK. He was born in Milan and raised in Sardinia. His interest in graphic art began at a young age, when he was captivated by the graphics on skate decks and the covers of metal bands' music CDs in the early 1990s.
He began to develop his artworks as a result of this devotion. Seveso has subsequently made a name for himself as the inventor of the 'dispersion' approach, a deconstructed rendering process in which he combines photographs of faces and bodies with vector patterns to complete his work style, he not only does photographs with faces and bodies but also by themselves and they still have a powerful approach when the viewer looks at them.
He is fascinated to people's portraiture, particularly features and expressions, and likes giving them a new face. His method begins with darkness and then adds vector things to the picture also known as "sperm sculpting" which is done by combining colourful vectors with black and white images. He is currently an Adobe Photoshop featured artist, and his distinct style can be seen on the cover image he made for Adobe Photoshop CS6. Seveso's other captivating aesthetic can be found in his recently released collection, 'Heavy Metals,' which is a series of underwater ink images created by combining ink with metallic granules, which are then suspended in different fluids and taken at fast speed. He thinks that even if you can't draw or paint, you can create something beautiful, creative, and engaging. Seveso's interest in graphics began about 15 years ago, when I had an Amiga 1200 and Deluxe Paint, which he adored but moved to PC when a buddy showed him the possibilities of Photoshop.
He has worked for companies such as Adobe, Nikon, Sony, Technicolor, MTV, Sony Music, GQ Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Ford, Apple, Lenovo, Wacom, Nature, New Scientist, and many others. His work has appeared in publications such as the Huffington Post, GQ Magazine, Wired, Colossal, Computer Arts, Advanced Photoshop Magazine, and Behance.
He draws upon the idea that when ink is placed in water it recreates in a way which illustrates how the ink is dancing this analogy serves as a point that it doesn't matter how your outcomes turn out when you place the ink in the water but as long as it feels like motion and you feel a certain emotion when you observe it, the photograph has done its job he further places. Fascinated by the concept of freezing time with a single click, Seveso has created his own approach one high-speed photography project at a time, each one solidifying his name as a master of the trade. Seveso visualises droplets of ink floating in a sea of black, immortalising their beauty before dissolving in water. Using mostly studio work Seveso works with a lot of lightning and experimentation to manipulate how the droplets form in water and disperse when the liquid dissolves in water, he uses high speed photography to create a frozen motion of time when he captures the movement of the ink droplets, in this image in particular Seveso doesn't let composition restrict his work he moves with how the liquid droplets move and focuses on the movements more than anything else, the work he does is more on the technical side of studio photography.
Image Analysis
Dark Matter Collection 2017
This is an ink droplet caught with the use of high speed photography from Alberto Seveso's 2017 Dark Matter Collection. This style of photography captures the essence of his work this collection demonstrates how the ink droplets look before they are enhanced in photoshop or before elements are placed to make a vector on top of a human face, his project Dark Matter really encapsulates the message he is trying to portray about how the ink droplets move in their purest form and in this instance the use of black helps capture the power and strength of his work amongst the bright background which balances and complements well with the black ink in the centre of the picture,
When Seveso makes his ink droplets he either uses a dark colours or very vibrant colours in this instance his use of the solid paint colours with the mixture of blues and yellows help create a depth in this image it's almost as though the the blue is in the distance where in reality it's essentially combined in this instance blue with a bright and vivid background in this image orange/red to draw out the ink droplets more when he mixes different inks he uses more subtle backgrounds so they don't overshadow the rest of the image.
The image communicates various things from showing solidarity in the way the ink droplets creates a powerful motion when it centres the image to how simple and minimalistic the image is it almost creates a portrayal of different types of emotions from serenity to empowerment depending on how you view the image, I feel like the images are created in a way that there can be numerous interpretations to the viewer. The parts of the image which stand out most to me are how Seveso is visually able to capture the views attention with his minimal work it really highlights him as an individual and highlights which part of photography he is most confident in. In his work he manipulates how formal elements is used as he focuses on a variety of them including colour, texture and layers he uses these varieties to compose his work. When I view his work his bright colour palettes makes his work captivating and intriguing to look at, it enhances the power and direction that Alberto Seveso is taking in his work.
I chose Alberto Seveso as one of my artist because in this project because I wanted to investigate how Seveso composes his work and how it looks so appealing to the eye, throughout out my research and delving in Seveso's work I've been inspired to take my own creative turn when it comes to creating images similar to Alberto Seveso work. The elements of his work that will influence me the most are how he creates is droplets of ink in the water without it being affected before taking photography his style of work will really help explore more of high speed photography.
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