Richard Kolker's The Game

I found Richard Kolker's work recently while looking through the top 175 entrants for this year's Critical Mass review. His images, comprised of both traditional photography and 3D modelling techniques, addresses the pervasiveness of online social hierarchies such as "Second Life." In the statement for the work, Kolker goes on to say:

"The images portray the moment when the real and the virtual worlds meet and represent imagined potential emotional triggers as the player recognises the blurring of the real / unreal boundary and is aware of the conflict that exists in his time being divided between the two."


"Logging On"
© Richard Kolker


"Playground"
© Richard Kolker


"One Evening, Any Evening"
© Richard Kolker


"Work"
© Richard Kolker


"Window"
© Richard Kolker