Horror surrealist photography at it's finest.
Christopher McKenney is a Wilkes-Barre, Pensylvania, based photographer whose photo subjects range from burning people to self-made ‘ghosts’. After finding himself in the woods one day in 2012 with nothing but a sheet, chair, and a frame, he started taking photos. He put the sheet over his head and photoshopped his body out. ‘I like […]
Christopher McKenney is a Wilkes-Barre, Pensylvania, based photographer whose photo subjects range from burning people to self-made ‘ghosts’. After finding himself in the woods one day in 2012 with nothing but a sheet, chair, and a frame, he started taking photos. He put the sheet over his head and photoshopped his body out. ‘I like […]
Dark and visually provocative, the art of Christopher McKenney is a surreal plunge into a world of self-expression. Floating figures. Empty portraits...
Art doesn't just have to be beautiful rainbows, sunshine and kittens – there is true art and beauty in horror as well. Chsristopher McKenney, a U.S.-based conceptual photographer, understands this perfectly. His dark and twisted surreal photography is terrifyingly... beautiful. Each photo is filled with symbolism and meaning that each of us can interpret for ourselves.
This is the photography of Christopher McKenney.
Christopher McKenney is a Wilkes-Barre, Pensylvania, based photographer whose photo subjects range from burning people to self-made ‘ghosts’. After finding himself in the woods one day in 2012 with nothing but a sheet, chair, and a frame, he started taking photos. He put the sheet over his head and photoshopped his body out. ‘I like […]
Photographer Christopher Ryan McKenney plays with the visibility of men in nature, masking their faces in draped cloth or removing their heads entirely.
Explore christopher.ryan.mckenney's 179 photos on Flickr!
Like A Prayer by Christopher McKenney
Human figures, their identities concealed with sheets, half their bodies missing, what remains suspended in air, as though they were transitioning between planes of existence, or between life and death, or, more horrifyingly, trapped between them. The eerie photography of Wilkes-Barre, PA artist Christopher McKenney recalls the portentous surrealist otherworlds of De Chirico and Magritte. His works, as you’ll see below, are dramatically staged, horrific tableaux. Knowing nothing about his working methods, I assume these are digitally crafted, though it’s far from impossible to achieve identical effects with film and darkroom skill. McKenney, unsurprisingly, maintains a presence on Flickr and Instagram. Both are well worth following. Previously on Dangerous Minds Vile bodies: the nightmarish visions of photographer Joel-Peter Witkin ‘One of Us’: stunning portraits of origami masks
