Photographer Freddy Fabris had always wanted to pay homage to the Renaissance masters with his photos in some way, but he wasn’t sure how until he stumbled upon an auto-mechanic shop in the Midwest. In his own words: “Translating painting into portrait photography was a challenge I looked forward to. I wanted to respect the look and feel of the original oil paintings, but needed to come up with a conceptual photo idea that would create a new layer to the original”. This led to a brilliant series of funny portraits with auto mechanics that you can see here.
It’s not funny, at all, but it’s really beautiful. They did a great job.
To the ‘it’s not funny’ comment…
So you’re saying… it’s sad and useless?
Is this why my car isn’t ready yet?
@to the batmobile : I double down, it’s not funny, and it’s neither sad, nor useless, it’s just a wonderful job that they did, full of culture and really hard to acheive.
Whoever did the Photoshopping to give the chiaroscuro and old lacquer/shellac look did a great job. This is entertaining for reasons other than just slap-you-knee funny.
These guys did a great job!
I love it. I am sending it to my son, who is an auto mechanic. I’d like one for my living room.
Excellently done!
Fantastic job of recreating the work of the period. I love it!
Is there a calendar of these guys?
Well done. But looking at their hands they ain’t no auto mechanics
Norm, it’s hard to believe but mechanics do actually wash their hands and don’t always have a black fingernail or two.
Well done!
Kudos to the brilliant concept and wonderful execution by photographer Freddy Fabris!