Tag: Marcus Lyon

Visualizing our world’s ever-growing urban infrastructure

Visualizing our world’s ever-growing urban infrastructure

For his projects Exodus and Timeout, Marcus Lyon takes overhead photographs and edits them into fantastical scenes that none

via kottke.org: https://kottke.org/18/05/visualizing-our-worlds-ever-growing-urban-infrastructure

For his projects Exodus and Timeout, Marcus Lyon takes overhead photographs and edits them into fantastical scenes that nonetheless seem plausible. LAX isn’t that large, no waterpark in Houston has that many pools, and Dubai’s roads do not have 70+ lanes, but you kinda have to look at satellite imagery on Google Maps to verify the fabrications.

June 1, 2018
7 Questions with Urban Landscape Photographer Marcus Lyon

7 Questions with Urban Landscape Photographer Marcus Lyon

Marcus Lyon (b.1965) is a British artist. He studied Political Science at Leeds and Leadership at Harvard Business School. His began his career with

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/10/03/7-questions-urban-landscape-photographer-marcus-lyon/

All my mass behavior artworks ( BRICS, EXODUS & TIMEOUT) are born out of the idea that the world is too fabulously complex and my audience is too visually literate for me to tell the truths I wish to communicate in a single image. So I collect multiple images, opinions if you like, to build new and hopefully more powerful visual reality. They take between 2 and 3 months each to make

October 4, 2014