Manuel Plantin and Upside Down Vision

Changing the view of a traditional reality by looking at it upside down is the art philosophy of the French photographer Manuel Plantin, known on the web as 'Yodamanu'.

When it begins to rain, he walks on the streets of Strasbourg and observes the people around him, studies their movements, pays attention to the colors of their umbrellas, everything in an upside down perspective.

Visualizing the reflections instead of the actual person feels like discovering another layer underneath what we are used to seeing.

Sometimes the photos are shot as views from the pavements, capturing the reflections on puddles of rainy water.

The images show another version of the pedestrians, a blurry and confused shadow, altered by the rain that captures them for a short moment.

His street photography is always deeply organized and the lights, moods and locations are carefully chosen. "There's beauty in everything.

Most of my reflections are photographs of people going to or from work on a rainy day.

But there's another way to look at them, the most mundane scenes can be transformed into something beautiful, almost surreal! Something I admire in impressionist masters - Turner and Monet, among others", he explains.

This change in point of view makes the photos more poetic and Yodamanu. His series titled 'Reflections' definitely favors a personalized reality shown upside-down that utilizes the poetry of rain to create photos that almost look like paintings.