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Photography, what a beautiful process that we all can engage with. From 1880, the craft and art form has come on leaps and bounds. When the craft started it involved huge pieces of equipment and technical know-how. Now, we all take images, whether on professional equipment or on our phones. The technologies we all have nowadays are literally quite remarkable. We are now seeing, as the art form moves forward with massive technological leaps, artists and image-makers taking a step forward by mixing up images with creative pursuits. They combine photos with different types of art such as music, sculpture. This idea of ‘hybrid photography’, a mix of photos with other art forms, is about making mix-media photography and moving forward creatively.
Our article here Photo-Mix<\/em> focuses on artists who are exploring this idea further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you know that any picture can be converted to audio? By using software such as Audacity, not only can you convert an image file to audio, but you can corrupt that image using other audio files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowan Martin used this process in his project Sounds of the Universe.<\/a><\/em> When preparing for this project, he used a Star Map tracker app to roughly figure out where certain planets are located. He took photos of the sky that show beautiful stars. After that, he found files of signals picked up by various NASA satellites and used those to corrupt his photos. This created eye-catching pictures, outstanding designs made by a combination of different data makes each photo quite unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rowan Martin, Saturn (Original)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When the data of the picture is combined with data of a sound, the photo data does not understand the sound data. It then creates a new picture that looks like a corrupted version of the original one. Moreover, depending on the sound, its loudness, and music effects that can be applied to the audio waveform, the corruption of the picture is harsher or lighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rowan Martin, Saturn (Corrupted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another artist that took mix-media photography a step further is Lindsey Seers. She started her adventure with photography by taking pictures with a camera placed in her mouth. Therefore, it looked like she was taking a picture of someone like they were a piece of food about to be swallowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then she decided to create a life-size sculpture of herself which had a camera hidden in their mouth. When a person approached the sculpture, it would take a picture of them. These photographs were used later in the artist\u2019s exhibitions. People’s reaction was shocking. How can this life-size doll scare them and take a photo of them? But that’s the beauty of hybrid. Something that we would not think could work together, does, and the results are phenomenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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