Christopher McKenney is a conceptual photographer from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His work is easily distinguishable by its heavily desaturated, surreal, and often mildly disturbing imagery. McKenney expresses a desire to remove identity from the subjects, leaving his pictures completely up to interpretation. He explains that whatever meaning people derive from his photos is up to them, as long as they feel something.
The use of editing in Photoshop is skillfully used to erase, transform, and enhance his subjects, emitting a sometimes subtle, sometimes intense feeling of otherworldly foreboding. As an appreciator of surreal art, I find McKenny's work appealing. While his gallery frequently features death, his attention to color as well as details in fabric, wood, and other natural materials, evoke a sense of delicacy and give life to an otherwise, desolate scene.
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