Gallery: These Impossible Buildings Make M.C. Escher Look Quaint
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Filip Dujardin makes digital photo montages of impossible structures.
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They're meticulously-made collages, pieced together from photographs of buildings around Dujardin's hometown of Ghent.
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Dujardin, a native of Belgium, was trained as an architect and later became a commercial photographer of architecture
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Both skills come out in his work.
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He strives to make his fantastic structures as realistic as possible.
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One key to the illusion is getting the light just right.
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“The building becomes real if the shadows are well done,” he says.
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His work is the focus of a new monograph, *Fictions*, out this month [from publisher Hatje Cantz](http://www.hatjecantz.de/filip-dujardin-5981-1.html).
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Is Dujardin an artist or an architect? The distinction doesn't really matter.
