I received my first camera for Christmas in 2011 and have been hooked on photography ever since. I find inspiration in light, nature, sci-fi, and art history, which I reference throughout my collections. I specialize in portraiture, fashion photography, and utilizing photography to obscure reality. When not thinking about my following collection, I enjoy chatting about music or talking about my four dogs
Henry Sodt
Frankenfruit
Digital photograph
“Fruit has been a beacon of rich indulgence for centuries. Depicting beauty, abundance, lust, and fertility, fruit has been represented as God's gift to humans throughout art history. Inspired by Bosch's ‘Garden of Earthly Delights,’ I was fascinated by how fruit could be a bad thing. Fruit, like any indulgence, is a double-edged sword—too much beauty, lust, fertility is a sin. With this in mind, I test fruit's timeless beauty by putting an absurd, disturbing spin on its environment and manipulating the fruit itself. With nods to Catholicism, I aim to reinvent how fruit is perceived, in contrast to its glorified, holy history.
Whether it's fruit smashed onto a wall or creating an entirely new fruit, I manipulate and destroy nature's most pure creation (photographed with a sticky camera of course).” — Henry Sodt
About the artist
Henry Sodt
I received my first camera for Christmas in 2011 and have been hooked on photography ever since. I find inspiration in light, nature, sci-fi, and art history, which I reference throughout my collections. I specialize in portraiture, fashion photography, and utilizing photography to obscure reality. When not thinking about my following collection, I enjoy chatting about music or talking about my four dogs