Realized in black and white, Tommy Ignberg's photographic compositions use the language of the most orthodox surrealism. Through which he represents social automatisms, the desires and dreams that are really camouflaged inside us, emerging from the unconscious.
Although indebted to the most orthodox currents of surrealism of the early twentieth century like René Magritte, Tommy was born during the 80's in a town in the interior of Sweden called Nyköping, where he has lived except for short periods of time all his life.
A rootedness to landscapes that are transferred to his works, where he adds more contemporary narrative elements or pays tribute more or less explicitly to characters and figures. They are part of our collective imagination, being relatively easy to identify for practically all of us.
It is this combination of elements, both those belonging to the territory in which he has grown up and where he has therefore spent much of his life, and the allusion to events starring relevant figures of our popular culture. The one that creates the combination in its right measure through which it manages to seduce us as spectators.
A beautiful small town located south of Stockholm, whose natural treasures became the ideal object that he photographed almost compulsively. Activity through which he educated his peculiar vision since his earliest childhood.
Regular activity that almost without realizing it, gave him, however, enough knowledge about the characteristics that should meet a photograph to approach it with optimal results. And that had not only a creative but also an artistic component, virtues that he has undoubtedly acquired in more than remarkable terms.
Experience that at first he acquired using as most professional photographers using an analog camera, to later move almost definitively to the side of those who use for their projects almost only digital equipment.
PHOTOGRAPHY AS EMOTIONAL THERAPY
This technical change not only modified the approach I used to apply when undertaking a photographic work. But he could perceive this change when he was already in the studio, in front of the computer used as a post-production tool, retouching and editing each shot, something that contributed especially to his artistic result.
Moving from a photography in which the landscape dominated to surrealistic photographic montages enriched by other foreign elements that he had the opportunity to introduce. Creating more instropective works, whose script is based on our condition and human nature, as well as our emotional and intellectual manifestations.
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This change in his work method occurred five years ago during a series of complicated episodes that affected him deeply. Traumatic trigger that far from making him give up his passion for photography, caused him to start playing with some photoshop functions, creating surreal photographic montages that reflected the different states of mind he was going through.
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