Step Into The high-Tech World Of London’s Futurists

the themes in photographer David Vintiner’s new series Futurists are politicians, scientists, inventors and, in one case, a certified cyborg. Their pursuits vary from virtual truth to transhumanism, however all of them have one thing in in style: a want to higher society through experimental technologies and innovation.

“i assumed this crew used to be in point of fact interesting, and as I started to analyze them, i found that it can be so numerous,” Vintiner says of the futurist. “it’s a huge topic, the future. however they’re all additionally eager about improving human expertise.”

Vintiner and his collaborator Gemma Fletcher, who equipped artwork direction for the images, started out the series photographing contributors of the London Futurists, who in flip offered them to other like-minded folks. Some, corresponding to transhumanist Anders Sandberg, analyze and learn about the long run as a career. Others are hobbyists, like Andrew Vladimirov, who invented a DIY “brain hacker” using electrical currents, magnetic fields and lasers, that can alter his moods and frame of mind.

“I always attempt to inform the story of a project via more than a few methods. on a regular basis with panorama and nonetheless existence and portraiture in order that it builds up a extra balanced story,” says Vintiner. “in the nonetheless life of the ‘god helmet,’ as it can be been named, that you can tell it’s home made, there’s glue and the velcro is putting off. I all the time like people who find themselves amateurs and who do it as a interest moderately than do it in a certified approach.”

For some of the subjects, Vintiner says, the long run is ready marrying technology and the human physique; in that approach, the images are often pix of the machines as so much because the people who invented them. “You hear stories about technology which is changing humans, or harming individuals, however quite a few these are about the partnership between expertise and people, and about human frailty I feel. it is a very certain outlook.”

A selection of photography from Futurists are in the gallery above. For the whole sequence, go here.