Jean-François Rauzier’s Hyperphotos: Mindbending Panoramic Images

Highly acclaimed, multi award-winning French photographer and visual artist Jean-François Rauzier has quite a long tradition as a distinctive visual storyteller and a prolific purveyor of re-imagined photographic hyper realities and utopian worlds.

Working as a professional photographer for nearly 40 years, Rauzier travels all around the world exploring cities, civilizations and cultural heritages, while trying new techniques and mediums to illustrate his unique vision of the world. In his relentless quest for a new medium of expression, it was only natural that numerical photography immediately captivated him when it penetrated the professional market 15 years ago. ”I waited 25 years for digital technology so I could finally do what I always wanted”, he says. Since then he has been exploring the multiple opportunities offered by digital post-processing, successfully turning himself into a ‘virtual painter’. In 2002, he invented the concept of the HYPERPHOTO, an elaborate…