He'll first cover up all the windows with black plastic to bring upon utter darkness within the room. After which he would cut small holes on the black plastic to allow an inverted image of the view/scenery outside the window to flood in and get projected throughout the walls of the room. It takes from five to ten hours for him to capture just a single photograph.
Throughout the course of this project, Abelardo Morell started to travel.
Capturing this series of photograph start from his living room to various exotic locations from around the world.
At the beginning of his project, he shoots with only black and white.
But gradually as time passed, he began to use colour films for his photographs.
He would position the lens over the holes on the black plastic in order to get a sharper and brighter image for the final rendered image.
Even using prism to make the projected image the right side up.
From his websites, I got to know that he feels extremely satisfied when he saw the combination of the weird yet natural marriage of the inside and outside blended into a single imagery.
Within his site, I have chosen four photographs that I felt that has left me in awe.
The one that I especially love was the one with the bookshelf. It is a recently taken photograph by Abelardo Morell using lenses and prism, a combination of various techniques he's come to work with over the course of the project.
So comparing it with his older works, these images naturally looks shaper and more "real".
The realistic aspect of the photo makes it look as if it was a wallpaper that was stuck right onto the wall. The flood in of the colours transitioned on the wall just seamlessly.
The focus of the entire photograph, the bookshelf is my favourite.
The textures of the projected image that overlaps it gave the shelf a revamp of colours that gave a sense of vintage in it, which brings out the colours even more making it really eye catching.
Making it almost impossible to miss.
Resources : http://www.abelardomorell.net/
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