Doll #1: Five Taking The Cover Image For The May Release Of Berkley Fiction Review
Doll #1: Five will be featured as the cover image for the May issue of Berkley Fiction Review! Issue #32 will spotlight my work as their cover. This image is intended to give life to an inanimate object while instilling a sense of pain, darkness, or uneasiness to the viewer. Using high contrast and off-center lighting gives life to the lifeless doll.
Utah Flaskow
Musician. Dreamer. Journeyman.
A series documenting the musician, Utah Flaskow. I documented Utah's story in images taken from his surreal existence and the "Land Of Dreams" and brought it into my reality.
From Utah's website biography, "I got bored with the monotony of day-to-day life, so I decided to spend more time exploring my dreams than being awake. The more I dreamed, the more control I gained over the lucidity of the dreams. I gave in to all of my impulses and committed every sin known to man. Little did I know that I would be persecuted for my dreams. These are the stories from The Notebook of Utah Flaskow."
A series documenting the musician, Utah Flaskow. I documented Utah's story in images taken from his surreal existence and the "Land Of Dreams" and brought it into my reality.
From Utah's website biography, "I got bored with the monotony of day-to-day life, so I decided to spend more time exploring my dreams than being awake. The more I dreamed, the more control I gained over the lucidity of the dreams. I gave in to all of my impulses and committed every sin known to man. Little did I know that I would be persecuted for my dreams. These are the stories from The Notebook of Utah Flaskow."
Dark and Macabre Works
Many of my works are dark, disturbing, macabre, or grotesque. Some of these series are in their beginning stages and some of these images are single images from series' that I am working on.
"The Asylum" is a series of itself within the dark imagery of my works. It began as a study and quickly became darker than my intentions had begun with.
"The Asylum" is a series of itself within the dark imagery of my works. It began as a study and quickly became darker than my intentions had begun with.
Fire Studies
Images in this section are of flame, fire, and the beauty that such a destructive force can create. These images were taken in black and white to enhance the affect that lighting and shading can have on your inner emotional processing.
Self-Portraits
These photographs are an ongoing series that I use to enhance my own knowledge about myself. I use these simple, focused, propped photographs to explore all that it is that makes me who I am. I am able to let down any guards that I have when it is just me and the camera. I use props to enhance the imagery that occurs when I explore my psyche in a black room all by myself.
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Josh Downey | P.O. Box 391 | McHenry, IL 60050
All images copyright 2008-2011. I reserve the right to refuse sale to any person, for any reason, at any time.
All images copyright 2008-2011. I reserve the right to refuse sale to any person, for any reason, at any time.
Josh Downey | P.O. Box 391 | McHenry, IL 60050
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All images copyright 2008-2011. I reserve the right to refuse sale to any person, for any reason, at any time.