This strange and alien-looking architecture is captured in surreal, gradated backgrounds by Spanish photographer and designer Al Mefer. The bulbous styles and quasi-futuristic forms of the buildings look unfamiliar, and while they certainly are earth-bound, the collection has been subtly tweaked to make them seem like they’ve been captured from an urban area of a different planet.
Walking through the streets of Mars
I was blinded by their beauty
Though traveling the stars
Amazement was a dutyAll these lands were of Ares just a fight
But the yellow hues of Venus
Like the paintings of a genius
Were of Aphrodite’s delightThen in Jupiter’s dark night
Zeus’ dreams were set alight
Earth’s wars tore me apart
And Outer Space brought me a new life
[…] blurs the line between staged photography and captured moments, but all of his work has a strange tension in it, perhaps in the alien-like colors and forms that are reflected. In his latest series, Strange […]
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