Photographic illusions of falling up into the sky

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. One of Hong Kong-based photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagreze’s latest photo series, Vertical Horizon, has him framing perfectly symmetrical shots of the city architecture edging around a skyward void. It almost looks like you could plunge in and freefall up to the sky forever.

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Illusion photography by Pol Úbeda Hervàs

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By Davide Luciano in New Photography on Wednesday 25 April 2012

An amazing example of illusion in photography, Pol Úbeda Hervàs has created a wonderful photographic series called I’m Not There. This is a series of images that displays a man looking at his shadow. The only thing is that the man has been removed from the pictures and all that is left is a pair of sneakers and a reflective dark shape.

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