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Robert Overweg [Profile, Games]

Robert Overweg is a photographer in the virtual world who explores the fading border between the virtual and physical. He photographs the virtual the same way as he is doing in the real world. Scenes captured, in games, are atmospheric, mesmerising and beautiful. Mostly abandoned levels, he captures elegance we tend to pass by when playing games. Where game designers intentionally elevate certain moments in the games by introducing special effects, Robert captures the beauty in the blanks, glitches and the left overs and the digitally abandoned.

By taking the photographs out of their context of the virtual world and blowing them up in a size of 144cm by 81cm (or larger) the typical aesthetics of games are laid bare. At first glance the photograph seems to represent the physical world really well. After further inspection you might see the identical air conditioners on the roof both have the exact same rust and scratch marks, the brick pattern on the wall on the right has non fitting patterns. The most obvious example is the two colliding roads whom are pasted together.

His latest projects, The End of the virtual world, Glitches, and more.

shotbyrobert.com

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Posted on: 24/08/2010

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  • Cliffkuang

    Thanks for reading!

  • http://www.facebook.com/winduptoy Matt Reyer

    Seems to me like these are all from Valve games. Maybe this says something about how great their games are…

  • http://www.facebook.com/rapatski Tiemen Rapati

    This is really nice. Finally something that pops something in my head again. Wonderful.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ranqizhu Ranqi Zhu

    limbo@inception…

  • Mistermodo

    I did this in 1999. ;-)