If Mad Max were a brilliant architect, here’s what he’d build
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Justin Plunkett's Con/Struct series blends the real with the fabricated. The South African designer and creative director has layered several images together and combined them with computer generated illustration to create a Mad Max style post-apocalyptic world.
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Plunkett has taken thousands of photos of some of the most down-and-out neighborhoods of the city.
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He takes an aspect of a photo, the sky, a window, and then adds a 3-D rendering he created with software.
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This leads to images that toe the uncomfortable line between real and fake.
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The series is part study in South African architecture, part deep commentary on life in the country.
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A Dutch-style home, shown here, is often considered a mark of wealth, but it is set amongst gravel and a tattered, old sofa.
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"I'd like people to look at it and ask themselves some kind of question," says Plunkett. "Is it real or is it not? What does it mean if it's real or if it isn't? That's where it becomes really interesting."
