Jos de Chirico believes in photography as a means of creating a parallel reality.  His early work used real subjects which he simply found to be enigmatic or surreal.  Over the past few years he has experimented with constructing fantasy scenes using posed models and props in dreamlike settings.  His latest project, based on a series of dreams uses manipulated photographs and creative writing pasted together to create photomontages.

"Book of Dreams" was to have been featured during 2003.  However, this project has been delayed, so a selection of earlier work is shown here.

The first set of images are photomontages from an essay (1975) on the realities of war and the way in which the fighters are becoming detached from their sometimes innocent victims.  "My favourite car" (2002) is one of the images from "Book of Dreams".  The  images from 2003 are manipulated images in which the reality is monochrome and the TV image retains its actual colours- reversal of reality and a reflection on how we perceive reality and image.