Tweaking the mundane to create the bizarre, each of Aaron Hobson's images suggests a plot line for the imagination to fill in the blanks. He constructs his "cinemascapes" using multiple images, stitching them together to create a scene filled with small details that hint at a complex narrative.
Raised in industrial Pittsburgh but now based in a small Adirondack Mountain town near the Canadian border, Hobson has a keen eye for beauty in rural decay. "The best thing about living here is that you are forced to do something or you can go batty," Hobson says of life in rural upstate New York. "Living here I am always feeling the need to take things further and push my limits, and I think that is how cinemascapes came about."
While in some, Hobson's appearance is limited to a Hitchcockian cameo, in others he takes a starring role. "Shooting a simple shot wasn't enough," he explains. "I wanted to shoot multiple images and stitch them. Then I said, shit, why not go another step further and place a character in the scene—and from there the narratives began."
Via Josh Rubin