Bea Fresno, Pebble beach Bum, Costa Brava

I think we all need to laugh, to see the world with humor, and appreciate those split second juxtapositions that are everywhere if you look hard enough. A couple of years ago, JPG Magazine had a call for images of Pranks. It got me thinking about making visual pranks and came up with this image:

Aline Smithson, Laying Eggs

Shortly after, I discovered it featured on a German blog, with a description of how repulsive it was, and I knew I had done my job….and that they didn’t have a sense of humor!

I’m so glad that everyone who submitted does…Thank you to all the photographers that DO know how to laugh, how to see humor in the world and in themselves.

THE LENSCRATCH VISUAL PRANKS AND PUNS EXHIBITION

Ken Rosenthal, South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Linda Morrow, My life as a Succulent, Naples in Long Beach, CA

Kerry Rowand, Untitled, Motel Room, Villas, New Jersey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Grandma’s Rocking Chair, Detroit, MI

Joseph Brunjes, Dead End, Wilmington, NC

Peter Neill, Rocket – From the series, ‘The Fantastic Journey’, Ireland

Peter Combe, canT afFORD, (TOM FORD), 2011

A. Scott Britton, Fallout, from the ongoing series “Let Them Eat Cake”, Washington, DC

Diane Cockerill, Crapi Apartments, Overland Avenue, West Los Angeles, CA

Jerry Downs, Portrait of the Artist, Corte Madera, CA

Emma Powell, Instant Messenger Pigeon, Middlebury, VT

Alison Overton, Joke Glasses, Penland, NC

Lori Bell, The Russian Hat, Weatherford,TX

Michelle Kathleen Anderson, Ringworm, Chicago, IL

Samantha Watkins, Postage Dew, Victoria BC

Joanna Black, In Plane Sight, The Egyptian Room, National Museum of Scotland

Robbie Kaye, Up or Down, Los Angeles, CA