Future, Man
Bob DiGiacomo, a New York based musician, asked me to create an album cover for his new music production.
He suggested that: "...each song is like going on an adventure. I see the whole album that way too. Within each song there are moments of excitement and anticipation. Once you make it through the dark forest the scene will open onto a serene lake with peaceful woodland animals quietly sharing a drink of water. It’s always about moving forward and looking ahead to the grand possibility of the future. The title is a bit of a play on words. Without the comma it would be “Future Man” implying that I am the future man. But adding the comma “Future, Man” implies that I am imploring the audience to look ahead. The future is where it’s at!"
I took the elements of Adventure, Future and Forest to create the illustration of the album cover. I have been creating through the years a series of photographs during my visits to some cities in Europe and here in Rio de Janeiro based in the concept of Cyberpunk. I took some of them to create promotion images of the album.
The final concept was made with the technique of Photomanipulation. All the photomanipulation and colorgrading was made in Photoshop. I was inspired by the concept of cyberpunk, a time traveller and futuristic technology. The story in my head was depicting a traveller from the future visiting the Earth a long time after all humans left the planet.
The text for the title was inspired by the neon signs of the streets on cyberpunk photography in Japan.
Bob DiGiacomo's website:
You can listen the album on Spotify:
The final image for the cover:
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/caff7b27-7f86-4f33-a17b-41cd3f00e160/2fe44316-89a6-4fbe-affd-cff4af5fefa7_rw_1200.jpg?h=691478932b000ff04baa346d3e8b5782)
And the images for promotion:
1.- The locks of Pont Neuf in Paris:
This image has some 3D applied on the already Legacy 3D tools and displacement of the red channel.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/caff7b27-7f86-4f33-a17b-41cd3f00e160/f1098984-7080-4a8d-ab1b-fe20cf5b44a3_rw_1200.jpg?h=d7d499c0f51ab5892f5a0956b400c0dd)
2.- Floating balls on the River Thames:
Cyberpunk halos and colorgrading, with a far London Eye.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/caff7b27-7f86-4f33-a17b-41cd3f00e160/93358775-22f6-47b0-a40c-85385ed82c5a_rw_1200.jpg?h=33f0b1abaf9506080c42603c3baef764)
3.- Floating Circular Structure on the River Thames:
Cyberpunk halos and colorgrading, with view of the Big Ben.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/caff7b27-7f86-4f33-a17b-41cd3f00e160/1c012f9c-818a-4e1c-b875-c76ee7d6394e_rw_1200.jpg?h=dc1d25e7dd4d9fd4ae8d51c1d3162d68)
4.- Floating MassiveAlien Structure on the River Thames:
Cyberpunk colorgrading, with view of the Pont du Carrousel, a bridge in Paris, which spans the River Seine between the Quai des Tuileries and the Quai Voltaire.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/caff7b27-7f86-4f33-a17b-41cd3f00e160/152ce3ba-c57c-4aab-bf52-15726b616d6e_rw_1200.jpg?h=d269587984189d1d468854a9e856efe9)
You can check more of my cyberpunk style work on my photography blog:
Thanks for watching!