Fedor Diakonov’s work is heavily influenced by characters in cinematography and short films. He has turned the lens on his grandmother and other family members as he “wanted to transform the family into the monsters that they really are inside”. This series of images was heavily inspired by Andrea Diacobbe’s images and the film ‘Night Watch’ which is a Russian urban fantasy thriller- transforming his family member into the supernatural visions of the ones found in the Moscow set film. He visualises his families personalities and qualities and merges them with characters that remind him of them in films. This works together to create surrealist, vibrant images that he describes as “very bold, eccentric and a bit crazy!”. Diakonov uses body part layering, still motions, static vibrations, coloured light and significant props that remind him of certain films to transform his family. I find the images really interesting as they play with the ugly-beauty theme i am looking more deeply into. He obviously sees the beauty in all his family members but has tried to visualise their negative traits in a cinematic way. Since looking at this shoot, I would like to play with colour clashing and perhaps motion within my illustrations- this may be with the technique i use to draw/paint or in a glitching animation in post production.