Oliver Boberg

I saw an exhibit of Oliver Boberg's in SF in 2005 and since then it's been stuck in my mind in a strangely odd way. The photos while not quite stunning had a certain eeriness about them. The "truth" about his photos and videos wasn't unveiled until the end.

From DCKT Contemporary Art Gallery...

A typical image begins as a collection of details describing a type of area or edifice from which he culls items to be included in elaborate scale models that he constructs. BOBERG then photographs the models from predetermined vantage points, achieving the finished photograph. Through his careful manipulation of visual information and mental expectation, BOBERG achieves a strangely compelling “reality” that is recognizable and unknowable; banal and universal.