Jim Kazanjian is interested in entropic images that challenge established notions of time, space, and context. Kazanjian uses appropriated images -over 50 photographs per work, as the ingredient to create surreal and fantastic worlds. Random snapshots of sinkholes, ominous fog, dense wreckage, and billowing smoke transform into the brooding icons of an otherworldly dimension. These "hyper collages" are generated through fragmentation, re-composition and digital manipulation. They heavily rely on the surprise element to question the traditional understanding of photography as an objective practice.
