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Floaters is a Surreal Image Series That Evokes an Alien World

Chris Gampat
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03/19/2016
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Last Updated on 03/23/2016 by Chris Gampat

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All images by Andreas Levers. Used with permission.

Andreas Levers started off early on as a web designer working a lot in Photoshop. “Wanting to edit my own images I began to take photos and photography became more important over time.” he tells the Phoblographer. Judging from his work on Behance, you can kind of understand the type of cool, surreal imagery he likes to produce.

Floaters is a project by Andrea that in some ways makes you think about Aliens but in other ways makes you wonder and stare at the photos with a strong sense of curiosity. Of course, it was done using 3D software, photos and computer engineered images; and despite that it still has an eerie sense of being just really damn cool.

Phoblographer: What made you want to do conceptual work like what you’re doing in Floaters?

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Andreas: I had some landscape photos that were okay but were incomplete. Using 3D software in my work more often I wanted to explore the possibilities of merging computer generated images with the real world. For this series I wanted to contrast the elements of nature with very strict geometry in a believable way.

Phoblographer: Most artists try to creatively express themselves through their work. What are you trying to express?

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Andreas: Whenever possible I enjoy traveling to remote and secluded locations. On the other hand I enjoy the clarity of modern architecture. The start of this series combines both aspects. In summary that is a difficult question to answer and maybe that is exactly the reason I turned to visuals.

Phoblographer: Where did the inspiration for this series come from? It’s not every day that you see a Rubik’s cube floating randomly over the water.

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Andreas: There are several artists which work inspired this series. First and foremost I’d say Filip Dujardin, Victor Enrich and David Copithorne. The strict and ultimately impossible precision of 3D generated objects in relation to unpredictable nature is a concept that I plan to explore in further images using the same process.

Andreas Levers Floaters photography project
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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.