We’ve covered infrared photography in the past, and are amazed at the ways it can transform scenery into alien-like, surrealist worlds. Here we’re featuring a series by Kate Ballis, an Australian former attorney, who left the world of law to pursue her passion for photography.
Her series Infra Realism takes place in Twin Palms, California and the surrounding Joshua Tree area, rich with 40s and 50s Americana. Vintage hotels, palm trees, and the sensibility of that time period.
The resulting images are wildly colorful, feeling more like otherworldly parallels than the real world. Via Fubiz:
“What makes the INFRA REALISM series special to me is how many ways there are of looking at it. To some, the palette is representative of 1980s Americana – of pink Barbie dolls driving blue corvettes’, MTV, Miami’s neon signs – and asa child of the era,
I certainly can’t escape my penchant for these hyper-realistic worlds that I looked at with awe in my youth in far-off Australia. And then there’s something spiritual about the work, too, in that it makes the unseen visible.”
-Photographer Kate Ballis
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