Daniel Lachen­meier is an illustrator/designer liv­ing and work­ing in Basel. He uses col­lage as a way to illus­trate and express his point of view.

Daniel doesn’t always use pho­tographs in his work, but when he does, they are used rather seam­lessly. It’s obvi­ous that the pho­tog­ra­phy comes from dif­fer­ent sources. Instead of this being appar­ent, Daniel manip­u­lates every­thing in such a way that the color story is con­sis­tent, giv­ing a feel­ing of cohesion.

The play of scale is some­thing I enjoy see­ing in Daniel’s illus­tra­tions. Often times men in his illus­tra­tions hover over build­ings and trees, their anonymity pre­served with Daniel’s care­ful removal of their faces. There is a feel­ing of lone­li­ness that I asso­ciate with this, a shame­ful­ness — the idea of seen but not seen.

All images via his web­site.