The Imaginarium of Illustrator/Photographer Ben Heine

Author: Abby Wilcox
Posted on: Tuesday May 11, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Filed under: ben heines, photography, illustration, pencil vs. camera, flickr, justin timberlake, justintimberlake.com

Check out this humourous series by Ben Heine called "Pencil vs. Camera" - a huge hit on Flickr, with a touch of comedic surrealism to calm your nerves and make you laugh. The idea concidentally emerged whilst Ben was writing a letter and watching TV (Ben noticed the relationship between the transparency of the paper and Primetime behind). Ever since, the series has taken off :

The photographs come from his own stock library. When asked how he chooses his "pencil" illustrations, Ben states "There are no rules. There mustn’t be. Imagination and creativity are the leitmotif."

Ben has made a point in a lot of the images to incorporate a more surrealist perpective (i.e. cat with two eyes, UFO in the sky, dynosaurs in the city) for comedic relief.