faces flipped upside down turn human features into alien-like creatures

faces flipped upside-down turn human features into alien-like creatures
marius weyers
all images © anelia loubser

drawn by the motivational words of author wayne dyer who said ‘if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change‘, cape town based photographer anelia loubser has completed a series of portraits that compel an usual and intent review. ‘alienation’ warps the perception of the human face by flipping it upside down, achieving weird and wonderful reinterpretations of the subject’s features. in this peculiar universe of oddly proportioned people, eyebrows become patches of whisker-like fur, arched forehead wrinkles visualize as wry smiles and scars describe distinctly disconnected noses.

richard antrobus

loubser wants the audience to ‘be introduced to the alienated being inside us all, where disconcerting beauty emerges. the work is on the one hand strangely aesthetic, on the other hand mysteriously eerie.’

gerrit loubser

 
gys de villiers

anna-mart van der merwe

shaleen surtie – richards

michael bosman

riette van der walt

nieke lombard

zolani mahola

jenny fisher