SAROLTA BAN

Photo Manipulation / Photomedia Artist

WEEK 2, TERM 2, 2015

EXAMPLES OF HER WORK

EXAMPLES OF HER WORK

EXAMPLES OF HER WORK

ARTIST STATEMENT

“I was born in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary. Originally I’m a

jewellery designer, later I discovered digital photo manipulation

and it became my passion and main activity. I like using ordinary

elements and by combining them, I can give them various stories,

personalities. I hope that the meanings of my pictures are never too

limited, are open in some way, each viewer can transform them into

a personal aspect. I’m not so good at talking about myself, I prefer

to let the pictures talk.”

PRACTICE

Her works are dream-like, ethereal, highly polished and skilfully combined. Surprisingly,

she shoots on only a 5 mega pixel point and shoot camera. Using then only Photoshop,

she works on a picture from a few hours to a couple of days long, and uses up to 50-100

different layers for one picture. Ban uses symbolism, angles, perspective, colour, texture

to express themes of childhood, solitude and consumerism among others.

http://www.saroltaban.com/

Define each of the underlined terms above.

Find a Ban work that is an example for each of the three themes listed above

and explain how the artwork demonstrates them, using the art terms.