PicsArt Monthly January 2014 Issue | Page 11

Before there was PhotoShop I spent a whole afternoon in the produce department of a mom and pop store inspecting cherries, one by one. Everyone in the store thought I was a creep but I eventually found the perfect shape, color and stem. I bought maybe two dozen “selects” but when I got back to the studio that one was still obvious. Many photographers, who would rather not engage in confrontational photography or rely on living beings, find beauty in inanimate objects, i.e. sculpture, doorways, graffiti, distressed interiors, tra