The exploration of ideas and human experience is at the heart of conceptual photography. Despite its lengthy history—arising from the mind-centered works of artists such as Marcel Duchamp—conceptual art and photography have never been defined as official movements, but rather as creative methodologies.
However, many young artists today are using photography in combination with Photoshop and other photo-editing tools to visually express, with surreal and symbolic imagery, the nuances of the human spirit and psyche. Quite often, as is the nature of life, these scenes become dark. The result is a growing body of photographers who powerfully channel their own personal narratives into fearless and poetic explorations of sorrow, alienation, and death.
