Awesome Photo Manipulations by Justin Van Genderen

Justin Van Genderen gets hired to do a lot of advertisements and photo processing for big companies; his work often features paint splashes, light trails, and smoke effects. While most of those works are bright and exuberant, there’s something about his personal works that are darker and much more interesting to me. I’ve seen a lot of shoddily done photo manipulations in my days- lord knows Deviant Art is full of emo girls who spend hours carefully blowing out the contrast and slapping multi-hued butterfly wings on photos just this side of homegrown. Justin’s are anything but, with carefully created landscapes and environments that toe the line on the border of dark and slightly malevolent. Check out a gallery of his fascinating work after the jump.

Awesome Photo Manipulations by Justin Van Genderen

I don’t know what it is about the photos to do with nature, sections, and the bizarre gravity defying water, but they all feel… sinister. And I like it. There need to be more artists who unwind by creating works of art out of stylized violence and creepy tree tumors.