Reality Taxidermia

Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, the Norwegian photographer Simen Johan creates each of his images from start to finish. Using techniques of taxidermy and photography and editing across his body of work, the viewer is urged to ponder the relationship between the real and the artificial or imagined. In his photographs, he darkly explores the human proclivity towards fantasy and our attempts, knowing or otherwise, to craft alternate realities for ourselves.