2023-06-30 16:25:32
Karen Jerzyk is an American photographer who decided to create scenes with an astronaut costume. His photos are both poetic and disturbing, and invite us to explore fantastic worlds in abandoned places. And if you feel like being scared, here are cursed scenes that will send shivers down your spine.
A great creativity
Karen Jerzyk was born in 1983 in Manchester, in the New Hampshire. She has a degree in communications from the University of New Hampshire. She has worked as a music journalist and as an artistic director for independent labels.
She is self-taught in photography, and does not use digital retouching for her photos. She does everything herself, from researching locations to staging, including make-up, costumes and props. She has exhibited her photos in several galleries at UNITED STATES and in Europe. She has also published a book titled “The Lonely Astronaut“, which brings together his best photos of the series.
She started photography in 2003, focusing on music. She then moved on to portraits in 2009, creating impressive sets herself. His universe is inspired by cinema, literature and dreams.
In 2014, she had the idea of buying an astronaut costume on the internet, and using it as the central element of her photos. She then began to travel the United States in search of abandoned places, such as hospitals, churches, factories or houses. She installs her astronaut there, whom she poses via models or herself, and creates surreal and intriguing scenes.
1/ lying in the middle of the leaves
2/ before the hotel Hi-Ho
3/ abandoned in the sand
4/ on a stage waiting
5/ at a service station
6/ in front of the Water Wizz
7/ a completely abandoned house
8/ an abandoned room
9/ in the middle of a staircase
10/ in a restaurant
11/ in front of an aid station
12/ lying in a diner
13/ waiting in front of a green house
14/ next to a car
15/ in a tunnel
16/ in the car park of an airport restaurant
17/ suspended in a shed
18/ in an old swimming pool
19/ on the bed waiting
20/ hanging in an abandoned room
21/ in front of an abandoned Chevrolet truck
22/ at the top of a staircase with butterflies
23/ lying surrounded by butterflies and flowers
24/ suspended in the air with butterflies
25/ next to a store
26/ in front of a butcher’s shop
27/ seated in an armchair
28/ in the snow next to a gas station
29/ in front of a cinema
30/ in front of a Ben & Jerry’s
31/ an abandoned hotel
32/ a lottery
33/ on a lit staircase
34/ in an alley
35/ alone on a bridge
36/ on the roof of a restaurant
37/ faces a dinosaur
38/ the break in front of the statues
39/ visit to a school
40/ take the sun in the desert
41/ a totally abandoned house
42/ the metro
43/ stop at a gas station
44/ a small bath?
45/ calling a friend
46/ suspended
47/ in front of the China Wind restaurant
48/ a new cache
49/ tentacles
50/ do your laundry
51/ fell from a staircase
52/ on the roof of The Foundry
53/a burning house
54/ catching butterflies
55/ two huge critters
56/ alone in a school
57/ sitting on a radiator
58/ look out the window
59/ sitting waiting behind a door
60/ while waiting to be served
61/ looking at a shop window
62/ in the middle of the shops
63/ no circulation
64/ trampoline in a bed
65/ new haircut
66/ an abandoned dome
67/ guaranteed cleaning
68/ stealing
69/ under a well-lit bridge
70/ in the middle of the street in the snow
71/ on a snowy road
Karen Jerzyk is not limited to the astronaut series. She has also carried out other photographic projects, such as Average Creatureswhich features ordinary people transformed into fantastical creatures, or The Color Projectwhich plays with the contrasts between bright colors and dark decors.
In another genre, here are surreal scenes created from everyday objects
I fell in love with computers when I was little with an Amstrad 6128, I never gave up. Since then, I have diversified by taking an interest in new technologies and more particularly those of our daily lives.
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