Concealment is hiding something to hide the identity of something to keep it from bring known. In photography, concealment is typically used to cove the faces of people. This can be done in a large variety of ways,form using everyday item such as books or tape, to using masks or makeup to obscure identity. Editing photographs in Photoshop can also be used to conceal the subject of the image.
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Wallace Juma is a concealment artist who doesn't focus on your typical concealment, his work is one of a kind. He uses reclaimed materials to form his images. He gets the ideas to make unrealistic images from looking at people in magazines and questioning the "intrinsic value" of what is being presented in these magazines. Knowing full well that photographs of models in magazines will not be their natural look, he decided to take this idea of an unnatural look to another level. He did this by creating concealment images of people out of reclaimed materials. So not only do these images display someone who doesn't
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