His photos may look like blurry, double exposure portraits but once you take a closer look, you will spot the subtle woven details “layered” on the subjects’ faces.
For his ongoing project ‘Woven Portraits’, Brooklyn-based photographer David Samuel Stern first took two separate photos of the same person.
To create the woven texture in his portraits, Sterne cuts the prints of his photos before weaving them together by hand.
The resulting image is a mesmerizing portrait that seems to conceal parts of his subject’s facial features, and the woven texture gives the photo an added dimension.
Stern said that, “In hiding some things, we reveal others.”
Check out Stern’s photos below, or visit his website to view the rest of his work.
[via Beautiful Surface, images by David Samuel Stern]