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Fake fires and greener grass: the real estate photo tricks that make a house feel like a home | Real estate
When a real estate advertisement came under fire this year for Photoshopping a “Chornobyl” green lawn out the front of an Adelaide property, the internet shared a bemused laugh. But according to real estate photographer Christine*, the mistake wasn’t Photoshopping the grass. It was the failure to suspend the viewers’ disbelief. Before and after images of lounge room which has been photoshoppedPhotographers add fires in fireplaces to make a room feel ‘warn and inviting’, but if the fireplace no longer functions it could be seen as misrepresentation. “We definitely add grass,” she says. “But it won’t look fake.” Christine has been in the business in Sydney for 13 years, and…
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Artist Sutapa Biswas: ‘I wanted viewers to work hard and feel uncomfortable’ | Art
The artist Sutapa Biswas’s father was a legendary figure in her relatives: a Marxist agronomist who stood up to the governing administration in west Bengal around environmental abuses, and smoked joints in a moonlit Taj Mahal (he broke in). Still it is her mother’s knowledge that anchors the artist’s new docufiction film Lumen, about a lady who travelled alone with five youngsters, next her husband to England to make a new lifetime. “She struggled,” Biswas claims. “1960s Britain was racist. She truly craved climbing trees or swimming in her sari.” Lumen slips between bittersweet feeling reminiscences of her dropped residence – its exceptional greens, the scent of frangipani – and…
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