World's X-Ray Vision

Artist Nick Veasey takes stunning X-ray photographs of the mundane, the gigantic, and naturally, of nature. Below you will find a small collection of his work Veasey borrowed a cargo x-ray scanner normally used to search trucks crossing into the US from Mexico to create this image. Once he scanned the vehicle, Veasey used Photoshop to populate it with skeletons and objects he shot separately (yes, he x-rayed a fedora). A hospital in White Plains, New York, commissioned the piece to celebrate the opening of its new orthopedic facility. The medical center’s PR team had a promotional bus wrapped in the image drive around White Plains for nearly two months.

The image above is the largest x-ray photograph ever taken. It’s a Boeing 777 and required over 500 separate x-rays of individual elements to achieve.

When working with the everyday stuff that surrounds us my basic thought is to try to make us think of all that goes into a subjects design. Why does it have that form? How does it work? What is it made of? Everything is designed, either by man or by nature. I like to reveal that design, make us appreciate or wonder at what goes on inside.

My main motivation in using the human figure in x-ray is to challenge society’s obsession with the image. Why is it so important to look a certain way? Inside we all function the same way and I think it is not a person’s face or ‘look’ that makes them what they are.

SOURCES

- Please visit NICKVEASEY.COM for additional information and photographs. Nick has several books of his work for sale on his site
- Wired Article
- AltPick Interview
- Cool Hunting Interview
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Young Gallery Exhibit

 

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