Developing Photos on Skin

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French artist Thomas Mailaender ‘sunburns’ old photographs onto human bodies. In his new book “Illustrated People”, he applied 23 original negatives from Modern Conflict’s archive onto the skin of models, before projecting a powerful UV lamp over them. The result reveals a fleeting picture on the skin’s surface (burned in), which he then photographs before it fades in the sunlight.

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