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Jey Alonso, the photographer with a surreal look

Dec 02, 2019

G&G _ Magazine unveils the stunning artworks of Jey Alonso with its surreal approach to architectural photography.


Jey Alonso is a young architect and photographer specialized in minimalist & surrealist architecture that shows his vision of the world through his photographs. Jey reviews the known and not-so-known architectural elements to give them saturated colors different from the reality. His works are based on the decontextualization of the photographed and the will to highlight urban structures that for most people go unnoticed in a everyday routine. It is a surreal interpretation of the city and of the sky, of how our urban horizon dialogues day by day with us and to what extent it serves as a canvas for art and for surprising us.


Jey Alonso introduces in his photos the concept of “relocating to locate” the architect Peter Eisenman to displace the observer from the building and its context generating a departure from real life to return, ironically to the reality through an artistic re-description of the real. This generates a totally new and surreal situation that makes the photographed object more real due to it gives the protagonism it did not have in the urban context. Jey Alonso's photographs rediscover reality by playing the "laws of the Gestalt" by using contrast and making distance between similar urban elements.


He has always been passionate about being behind the camera and thinks of photography as a discipline than needs patience in which you have to wait for the right moment to freeze what you are looking for.


The artist is committed to an artistic photography not limited to reflect the real, in which there is a symbiosis between the photo retouching, the composition, the surrealist colors and the reality portrayed by the photographer, all as artistically valid elements. This approach generates what Robert Venturi defines as "juxtaposed contradiction" that brings up the aesthetic and poetic values of each urban structure.


www.jeyalonso.com

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