Stanislav Aristov. He lives in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
He uses a macro lens and flash to photograph matches as they burn. To create the strange shapes that make up the animals he twists the matches as they burn.
The flame in this image is in the shape of a light bulb and in the place of the wire a small match that looks like a small person with their hands outstretched. I like this image as it is two contradictions in one. A lightbulb is fueled by electric instead fire and the burning match person has raised their hands in what seems like a victorious pose despite being burn as the image is taken.
This image depicts a small snail climbing up a green leaf. The charred match is his shell and the flame makes up the remainder of the snail with a long green streak representing a leaf.
All Aristov's images are representations of images rather than the images themselves, instead he chooses to use matches and fire to create still life shots. There is a hopefulness to this image as the snail is brightest in the image reflecting it's life. Another aspect of this image that focuses on the snail is the slight vignette around the edges of the image
In the above image Stanislav Arstov has created a spider by using the flame of the match to create the body and has created the limbs out of the matches. The amount of detail within the spider draws the viewer in to the scene and when matched with the negative space of the background it creates an intense focus on the spider - specifically the lighting. There is a warm glow on the spiders limbs that hint towards another fire below the spider.
In this image Aristov has used the green 'smoke' again to create leaves, the match is the stalk and the flame is the petals of the flower. The whimsikle angle at which the flower is leaning suggests that it is blowing gently in the wind. I like the oxymoron of this image as art (or photography) is imitating life, if the match was blown by even a slight breeze would break the charred match.
