What Photos Look Photoshopped but Are Actually Real?

In 2011, the Austrian band VLP approached also-Austrian photographer Bela Borsodi with a request: they needed a cover for their album “Terrain.”

I neither get why their collection of noises is considered music, nor why his insane still life photographs are considered art, but I do know a cool illusion when I see one.

Usually, visual artists try to avoid tangents. Not rants, they love those, but the visual discomfort two touching objects can create in the eye of the beholder.

To fulfill VLP’s request, Borsodi decided to take all his good tangent manners and throw them out the window. The result is this:

This is a single photograph. Not a collage. A single photograph.

It took over 1,000 pictures to get the end result. He lined up the items in his apartment for hours, until they sat just right to send your visual receptors on a rollercoaster.

Here’s the picture from another angle to give you an idea:

You can even see how he arranged everything in a time lapse here. I might not understand all art, but I do know all artists share the same struggle.

They want to make you go “huh?”

Even “hmm…” will do. Our gold medal is a “that’s interesting!”

Kudos, Mr. Borsodi. That’s interesting! Looks like you really took to heart that old lesson from one of the greatest:

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

Nik

Niklas Göke writes for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. A self-taught writer with more than a decade of experience, Nik has published over 2,000 articles. His work has attracted tens of millions of readers and been featured in places like Business Insider, CNBC, Lifehacker, and many others. Nik has self-published 2 books thus far, most recently 2-Minute Pep Talks. Outside of his day job and daily blog, Nik loves reading, video games, and pizza, which he eats plenty a slice of in Munich, Germany, where he resides.