Noell Oszvald

Noell Oszvald is a 25-year-old visual artist from Budapest, Hungary. She doesn't call herself a photographer, but uses a camera to create her art.

Among her recent works is a series of striking self-portrait photos. Each one is a surreal black and white incredibly minimalist image. 

Her work focuses on playing with lines, horizons, poses, and contrasts to create abstract, “perfectly balanced” scenes. 

The images themselves may be stark and minimalist, but the process is a little more complicated.

“Most of [my self-portraits] are composites that only give the illusion of being photographs,” Oszvald says in an interview with Lines magazine. “I usually don’t pre-visualize my images; they’re spontaneous. If I have a specific idea in mind I draw sketches that help me perfect the concept before taking the photos I’ll use later on.”

“I find post-processing the most enjoyable part of creating, I build my pictures up from several different ones, much like a jigsaw puzzle.”

I have never thought of creating such well balanced images from only postproduction, and this is something I might experiment with, maybe not now but definitely in the future and when I have more time to play around with shape and style.