Just how obsessed are you by your passions? By your work? By your style?
Tim MacPherson's latest work shows not only his own obsession with creating perfectly crafted images but the obsessions of others, in a series of fantastically detailed portraits bringing passions to the surface - literally.
Each portrait has an air of pride, perhaps arrogance; each figure claims their obsession and wears a distinctive and unique 'hair' style with a strangely natural stillness. Both ludicrous and compelling, absurd and beautiful, these photographs imagine the extreme lengths to which an obsession might take you.
MacPherson, known for his surreal and clean imagery, resisted the pull of CGI and created these images by meticulously creating individual sculptures by hand - toy cars carefully placed, miniature furniture chosen for it's likeness to the wave of a girl's hair, grasses curled and pinned as carefully as a floral arrangement, musical instruments, sweets, cotton reels; all collected, chosen and put in place to produce remarkably life-like creations. The resulting headpieces were digitally combined with carefully selected portraits to produce the final series.
