One To Follow: Zeren Badar
the penniless photographer…
Meet Zeren Badar, the self proclaimed Penniless Photographer from New York City. I came upon his work through the Saatchi feed on Facebook — so he’s already been scooped up, and probably has lots of pennies now.
“I’m hugely influenced by dadaism and neo-dadaism for this photography project. I explore a peculiar combination of photography, painting & collage. I create three dimensional collages with found objects, food and cheaply printed old paintings. I turn pre-existing works of art into Duchampian ready-mades and take photographs of them.”
It’s almost impossible to not get lost on his tumblr account. There is so much to look at, from Dutch Masters to eggs cracked on their faces, to French mistresses sporting pasta wigs. Some of the found objects he places on the images don’t seem cohesive, but that may be the point. It’s an exploration of the absurd, the ready made, but it’s not as literal as Duchamp‘s attempts — these are merely photographs of his works.
I try to create ambiguity and pull viewers attention deeper to my photographs. In many ways, I examine new type of still life.
Badar is quite prolific, I found it hard to feature only a few of his images as they’re all so intriguing. Check out the rest of his work here or you can find him on Saatchi Art here.
