These portraits were made with an ordinary flatbed scanner

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Dubai-based artist Maitha Demithan creates unusual-looking portraits of people with a surreal look, with each subject's eyes closed or looking away from the 'camera'. The reason is that the 'photos' were all captured with an ordinary flatbed scanner.

Demithan entered the world of scanography in 2009 and has created these works over the past decade.

For each portrait, Demithan uses a standard A4 flatbed scanner and scans her subjects' bodies over dozens of scans, sometimes up to 100. She then takes those scans and stitches them together in Photoshop to create her resulting portraits.

To prevent her subjects' eyes from being dazzled by the scanner's bright light, she has them close their eyes or look to the side while they lie motionless until the scans have been made.

You can find more of Demithan's work on her website and on Instagram.

Source: Petapixel

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