Abstract Photography

Abstract Photography

Abstract photography involves creating images using photographic materials and equipment that lack a direct connection to the physical world.

Abstract photography, also known as non-objective, experimental, or conceptual photography, is a method of portraying visual images that lack an immediate connection to the physical world and are produced using photographic equipment, processes, or materials.


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Parra's studio, with Parra at the centre, his back to the camera as he works on the large painting takes centre stage, showing a faceless blue woman in a striped dress, painted in red, purple, blue and teal. The studio is full of brightly coloured paints, with a large window on the right and a patterned rug across the floor under the painting.