When words can’t quite sum up a feeling, Ben Zank (rather) tends towards a bizarre visual language. The New York-based photographer creates strange situations in which subjects are enveloped by topiaries and shrubs or buttoned up with structural supports.
Zank’s images, captured in unobservable locations, turn the banal into the surreal, while his witty titles – ‘Failed Columnist’ and ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Despair’ – reinforce his penchant for humor.
Earlier this year Zank published a monograph entitled Nothing to see hereavailable at Aliens in Residence. You can find more of his work at Instagram.
