"There's no real separation between my life and my work. When you set up these scenes and images everyday, they become your life. The surreal just becomes the normal, and the extraordinary becomes a daily occurrence. It's all real. We create these moments, then photograph them. We do this day after day, and it's no longer a fantasy; it's the world that we occupy." -David LaChappelle
"El sueno de la razon produce monstrous"- "The sleep of reason brings forth monsters" -Goya
"Art is what you can get away with." -Andy Warhol
"Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Alice in Wonderland
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road” -Voltaire
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” -Chuck Palahniuk
Music
everything rocknroll
Movies
The Goonies, The Jacket, City of Lost Children, The Orphanage, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Fur, I Married A Strange Person, Waking Life, What The Bleep Do We Know, Jesus Camp, The Secret, Krull, The Cell, Pan's Labyrinth, The Burbs, Willow
Television
is dead.
Books
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, The Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch, What The Bleep Do We Know: Discovering the endless possibilities for altering your everyday reality by William Arntz
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Heroes
David LaChappelle, Jeff Soto, David Lynch, Camille Rose Garcia, Tim Burton, Mark Ryden, Joe Sorren, Alex Grey, Ron English, Gary Baseman, NECKFACE, Team Macho, Todd Schorr, John Casey, Pourus.
Photography has always been what I've used my entire life to create a glimpse into the different worlds and realities I experience. I embrace the surreal and use my images to explore and question what's pure or provocative, good or evil, beautiful or ugly... While it all exists together, captured in rich dreamlike universes overpopulated with colorful daydreams, haunting nightmares, misspent youth, pleasurable pain and twisted beauty.
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others."- Jonathan Swift
I'm always looking for new people to collaborate with...
Please email me for project inquiries.
AndyHartmark@Gmail.com
ModelMayhem.com/andyhartmarkphoto
Model Mayhem #474144
I incorporate as many hidden messages as possible into my photos. These messages can only be decoded by playing the photo backwards. :]
"Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius. And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring" - Marilyn Monroe
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"Reminds me of the garbage pail kids but for grown ups." -Annmarie
"Your like the dirty raw scary photography dude seperated at birth from the sweet innocent lisa frank...i think its the colors...your colors are so friggin rad. your photography looks like paintings, or from a crazy planet in another galaxy. Its sweet." -Sharon Toxic, Toxic Vision Clothing
"You bring out visions that only come in dreams. fantastic!" -libertina grimm
"I am so in love with your style my friend! It's an HDR candy shop, full of seizure colored gumdrops and black lollypops!" -Chad Ruin, Photographer
"Your work is ridiculously mesmerizing. It really touches a part of my soul that awakens the age of innocence in the most genuine way." -Zoe Minx
"Great work...your very talented" -Nikki Sixx, Motley Crue
"Your art takes us to places that can't be found on a map. It defines what we can't find words for." -Hellbound Kitten
"People love your work because it's original, it has vision and it's uncompromising. But it's also technically sound. They respond to that. They see something in it they are unable to attain themselves - based primarily on the chains and limits they have placed on their own existence. Your work to me, anyway, represents the freedom we all want, but are afraid to reach out and grab." -Ed Baker, editor of College Times Magazine
"I forget to breathe when i look at your photos" -Michelle D'Ville
"Your photos remind me of a Quentin Tarantino film. They are subhuman or even inhuman BUT still so incredibly sexy!" -Mandy
"Somehow you always make my mind enjoy insanity" -Penny Dreadfalls
"Your work is like a dream, no a fantasy come true...i've fallin in love :)" -Lisa Ortiz
"Can't get enough of it. It's like visual heroin. Thanks for the fix." -trina cooley
"Its as if you mixed horror and comedy and romance into some kind of twisted parallel universe." -Elaina Jo
I went to a photographic exhibit last weekend here in LA. They're supposed to be "edgy" but they don't have 1/5 your talent. I'm consistantly impressed. Thank you for your art. -Lefty
"What I would give- just to enter your bizarrely beautiful and phenomenal world... for only a moments time!" -AnNi(e)Mal
"I just looked through all your photos, and I now think sex will disappoint me." -Farrah the Squid
Who I'd like to meet:
artists, free thinkers, visionaries, models, makeup artists, time travelers, hairstylists, music makers, prop designers, photographers, wizards, filmmakers, anyone who wants to reimagine and rewrite reality...
"Whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting" -waking life
I also do music videos, this is the last one I shot and edited-
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