Koscs Gábor

The next photographer I looked at was Koscs Gábor. I really don't have much info on this photographer besides that I found him on the photo.net website. Most of his work seems to be either portrait or landscape and much of his portrait pictures are very difficult to describe. Often times only the model is shown and the feeling that you get from them is dark. It is almost as if you were looking through the eyes of a madman and saw distorted people. His landscape photos are just as strange. Rather then take the typical landscape that is picturesque his have a darker feel to them. This is becasue seem to have more of a centrally important object. Often times his pictures have a dark and creepy house or a lone person/ couple in the middle of the image. This combined with scenery that seems to surround and entrap the central object makes it seem as if the borders of the image are trying to invade the middle. What also adds to the darkness of his images is his use of lines. Many of his images contain trees or walls with cracks that either blend the focus point with the background or lead the eye towards the object of interest. These lines add the to formal qualities of his pictures and help bind them together so they don't seem so intentionally odd. I think what makes many of his images so successful is how easy it is to come up with a story for them. They don't seem to have any hidden meaning but rather invite the viewer to come up with a dialog that would fit the image.