Dean West, a native of Australia, has spent the past 3 years travelling the globe exhibiting at the world’s most prestigious art fairs. Included in Saatchi & Saatchi’s collection of the world’s top 100 emerging photographers at Cannes, and winner of the IV International Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy.
West’s images, designed with the intention of arousing intense curiosity-champion the medium. While this is a case of a picture being worth a thousand words, Dean points out that the multilayered images allow viewers to analyze the process of digital photography itself, which incorporates surrealist collaged objects and perfectly manicured poised models caught in mid-air.