x-ray portraits by Xavier Lucchesi [ view - VIDEO ]
french photographer xavier lucchesi has created the series ‘radio portraits’ or 'interior landscape’ in which all of the images have been captured with a medical scanner. in this way the artist sees, the 'internal journey of self’. lucchesi first has the subject’s image captured in an advanced x-ray machine either pictured by themselves or with a large or small object clutched to their figure. after the medical scan has been completed, the image is enhanced by lucchesi digitally by the addition of color, highlighting of certain shapes or organs only visible to the human eye with the utilization of this photographic technology.