The photographic artwork Planet Masks by Valquire Veljkovic is an interpretation of masks, done by the Berlin based fashion designer Tata Christiane in cooperation with Elisa Cucinelli, representing thirteen planets, moons and dwarf planets of our system: Earth, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea.
The mask pictures are joined with the scientific images of the Hubble Space Telescope which shows original footage of space nebula, birth scenes of planets and systems.
Original 6×7 analog color negative image, digitally composed with high resolution
NASA images. Developed with metallic photo process.
Masks: Tata Christiane & Elisa Cucinelli
Photography and composition: Valquire Veljkovic
Model: Laura Keil