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Dariusz Klimczak’s Surreal Images Will Inspire Your Darker Half

Chris Gampat
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05/19/2014
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empty nest

All images by Dariusz Klimczak. Used with permission.

Dariusz Klimczak is a Polish photographer with an eye for the surreal. Since 1990 he has won award after award from Kodak, Photo.net, Adore Noir, and has had exhibitions internationally. He uses his 5D Mk III and Photoshop CS6 to create photomontages that display a world that seems like it was out of one of Tim Burton’s darkest dreams. Dariusz states that he has no idols or mentors because he purposely tried not to copy anyone else. Instead, he gets inspired by his own work to create other things–specifically citing landscapes, textures, and architectural details.

“I always wanted to develop their own photographic language, a kind of visual Esperanto, characteristic only for me.” says Klimczak. “I work consistently and systematically to try to continue to develop and diversify my workshop. I develop photographic cycles, but also looking for new themes. Imagination has no limits, so I can say that I have a job for life.”

Klimczak also believes that he doesn’t create anything special and that instead he just tries to move the idea from his head to the computer screen though sometimes with difficulty. Creating work like this can sometimes make an original concept change to suit the project.

Here are some of Dariusz’s other photos.

balance

circus maximus

leaf me alone

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rusty cage1

studnia1

switezianka

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.