A Y H A N D U M A N
Ayhan studied Arts & Interior Design at the Institute of British Designers/London and Industrial & Photo-Design at the Gesamthochschule Kassel/Germany under guidance of professor Ell and professor Neusuess.
Past his graduation, he founded the AMD Studios in Munich/Germany where he soon became a most sought after photographer due to his intrigueing lighting style and in-camera photo-compositions. In late seventies there were no dedicated computers like in our present day, so the images Ayhan created aroused quite a turbulence.
This lighting style finally became refined over the years and led to a lighting system which was named the Magical Mystery Torch®, inspired and borrowed from the Beatles LP, the Magical Mystery Tour.
Basically this lighting style is a mongrel based on the "slit-scan" motion-control technique which was used in the Stanley Kubrick film "2001-A Space Odyssey" and the classical "Light Painting" but with an additional movement of the "Camera-Lights-Object" group, which leads to these pseudo-three-dimentional images.
All images are camera originals (4x5" transparencies) and without any post image manipulation. Not even the "Woods" image has been post-manipulated, the plywood was bent to form the shape and held by three sets of thin black monofile behind the set, invisible for the camera.
These samples here may not show the effects the big prints reveal, (up to 50") the originals show a very sharp image with a softly overlapping/melting secondary image. Hard to describe really, one has to see the real thing!
The Puppet for instance; this puppet was part of the shot for the Yves Saint Laurent Cosmetics, it's merely 5" high, not any bigger than the image displayed here. There are more than 12 different lights on this tiny model, leading to a very subtle but effective image. Again the Magical Mystery Torch® was applied, leading to this moody effect.
In 1997 Ayhan put most of his analog equipment aside and decided to go full digital, invested vast amounts in hi-tech electronics and hi-res digital image capturing and processing hardware/software under one roof which of course is an advantage in the advertising community.
Yet the digitally created and processed images do not necessarily reveal the so called "electronic" look, most of the time even the most experienced pro has a hard time deciding which images are digital or conventional.
More information on Ayhan and his work can be found on his site http://www.amdphotodesign.com
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