
Damian Chrobak project ‘Everywhere I look, I’m being looked at’
damianchrobak.com
September 10, 2026
Movement
Unstaged observational photography in the reportage lineage — real people, places, and events recorded as found, in available light, with no constructed set.
Palette & Light
Colour removed to a single tonal channel, forcing contrast, texture, and tone to carry the whole image.
Layout
Elements stacked front-to-back and allowed to occlude one another, building depth through overlap rather than perspective.
Treatment
Heavy analog noise, rough scans, and tactile textures serving as an authentic defense against smooth AI perfection.
Medium
A photograph presented as an image in its own right — camera-made and shown for itself, rather than as the raw material of a poster, spread, or cover.
Subject
The body as primary subject — portraiture, fashion figure, and the crowd.
Ranked by how many traits each reference has in common with this one — computed from the image, never from who is looking at it.