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Close and Personal with the Demon Gang

“Get out of my face.”

I had a really fun time with my friend Natasha shooting this idea. There’s this night-club in downtown Austin called “Neon Grotto” and they allowed us to take photos inside. It was the perfect location to make my subject feel like a badass character in a fluorescant and grungy bar.

Creator

Dylan Newton (Picklefig)

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In 2016 I started playing a game called Life is Strange, where you play as a photography student in a fictional Pacific Northwest town. Her approach to photography was to take photos of things she found interesting. This simple concept gave me the desire to go out and photograph the world around me. For Christmas that year, my dad gave me a 35mm Pentax Spotmatic SLR camera and began taking photos with me as a bonding activity. Later in 2018, I started watching movies like Ghost in the Shell, Bladerunner, and Ex Machina. I was filled with so much inspiration from those movies and the philosophies that drive them that I wanted to go out and take photos of my cyberpunk world and build my props to make those photos feel as realistic as possible. While having a day job at Guitar Center and working on my bachelor's degree in marketing, I would take two to three days a week to drive from my humble small town of Beaumont Texas to the bustling industrial city of Houston. The grimy downtown streets at night filled my mind with images of a dark and glamorous future. I've been chasing after images of that cyberpunk world ever since.

Properties

Rights

Extended Editorial

Location

Austin, Texas

Camera

Sony A7iii

Genre

Portrait Photography

Time

2022

Artist

Dylan Newton (Picklefig)

Edition

1/1

Dimensions

4000x6000

Filetype

JPG

License

Extended Editorial

Can be used to display privately, or in commercial and non-commercial settings, or in groups with an unlimited number of participants. The license includes unlimited use and display in virtual or physical galleries, documentaries, and essays by the NFT holder. Provides no rights to create commercial merchandise, commercial distribution, or derivative works.

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