Standing as a fascinating example of collectible infrared photography, successfully challenges human sensory limits by shifting light frequencies outside the standard visible band. Creative duo Hunter & Gatti abandon conventional camera constraints to expose an alternate, untouched reality where black and white light values invert with high dramatic tension. This unseen spectrum serves as a baseline that the artists bring into the physical world through expressive hand-executed scratch marks and rich red acrylic washes over a premium pearlescent metallic paper. The mysterious veiled figure is transformed into a timeless traveler of an invisible world.
The “visible” spectrum, is probably the most well-known of human sensory limitations, as the human #eye is only capable of perceiving light at wavelengths between 390 and 750 nanometers. Of course, calling it the “visible” spectrum is a bit of a misnomer, as plenty of animals are capable of perceiving light with frequencies outside this relatively narrow band of electromagnetic radiation. Using infrared black and white photography, the images shift, as you just saw, the greens become almost white and the blues a dramatic dark. The colors are not distorted, a different part of the spectrum is simply captured, it is another reality, it totally differs from the reality we know, that is why cameras and films have been always prepared to eliminate ultraviolet and infrared light, so that their results is the one that human eye sees, and that´s what we change.
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