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Jacob Robert Price’s Mixed Media Photos Present an Eerie World

Chris Gampat
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09/04/2014
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Last Updated on 09/04/2014 by Chris Gampat

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All images by Jacob Robert Price. Used with permission

When you look at the photographic work of Jacob Robert Price, you get a sense of weird eeriness combined with vintage aesthetics. Mr. Price totes around a 5D Mk II and 35mm lens to create these scenes by shooting the photos and then working with them afterwards to create mixed media. “I first started experimenting with mixed media completely out of the blue. I had an idea for a photo that involved something with a burned face. I wrote down and sketched out multiple ideas.” says Jacob. “The original thought behind the photo was going to actually involve fire and a lot of Photoshop, it just wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go, so I took the photo and printed it out. After I printed the photo out my first idea was the take a photo of the photo I printed out and light it on fire for the effect.” Unfortunately (sort of) Jacob ended up with a photo of him with a burned face. For him it was a happy accident. He now uses Photoshop CS5 for all his editing. But the manipulations like the burning are done in real life.

Jacob has the blessing of being surrounded by many other creatives and photographers from different styles. And this circle of friends always inspires him and pushes him to keep working. But besides this group, he pulls lots of inspiration from movies, music and his favorite photographers.

Like any artist, Jacob is trying to express himself and focus on things in his past. “I have an entire notebook filled out with ideas, sketches, and writings of everything from photo ideas to funny stories that happened to me in the past. I don’t necessarily know what inspires or motivates me the most when I’m coming up with ideas, I would say it is a mixture of everything I’ve experienced / imagined.” says Mr. Price. “I’m not good at just shooting something on the spot. Every now and then it happens, but the majority of the time I have to sleep on the idea.” He continues to state that photography is a sort of therapy for him.

“As an artist my goal is to use photography to my advantage as a sort of therapy. Creating something that is symbolic to myself is, what I’ve found, to be the best form of moving on. That does not necessarily mean that all my art reflects something that happened to me or an issue I’ve faced, but as a whole, I think it works together to create that illusion.”

More of Jacob’s photos are after the jump.

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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.