Benjamin Mandre is a digital artist based in Stockholm, whose work investigates the intersection of human perception and machine-generated imagery.
MY PROCESS
His practice blends elements of painterly photography, digital materiality, and phenomenology, exploring how sensory experiences are translated into the digital realm.
Digital Crochet
Artist Statement
Contemporary culture is a sprawling, endless network of images, an over-saturated landscape of self-replicating snapshots, disconnected from lived reality. To engage with this "digital junk space" is to practice an archaeology of the present, excavating meaning from the detritus of everyday creation.
Through my work, I sift through these layers, uncovering fragments that still retain some essence of significance. I use AI to reshape digital matter into places of meditative resistance, carving out space for silence, hesitation, and vulnerability
I’m drawn to conditions that foster slow, deliberate perception — where each image becomes an interval, a brief moment of quiet reflection in which impressions can turn inward. What captivates me is that quiet instant when something unexpected emerges, yet it still resonates with a sense of truth.
Digital Crochet
Urban Harvest
Lofi Photo
Submitted Image Sets:
• Digital Crochet: An ongoing exploration into texture and tactility. This project builds on 80 Coutures/Coiffures, an image marathon in which I published eighty portraits in a single day.
• Urban Harvest: An investigation into rural culture and its expression within urban environments.
• Lofi Photo: A series that merges abstract impressionism with analogue photography, focusing on texture and sensory experience.
All images were created using Midjourney's Basic and Niji models, upscaled in Topaz, and retouched in Photoshop.
