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Man secretly snaps London commuters as Flemish paintings


I love a good bit of fun when it comes to my morning look around the web, and these images from Matt Crabtree's 16th Century Tube Passengers series are quite amusing. Matt secretly photographs people on their commute, creatively manipulates the pictures to look like Flemish paintings, and posts them online.

"All these shots are taken, retouched and sent from my phone whilst on the tube journey," he said. "I'm capturing the most of mundane commuter moments with a quiet, classical beauty."

Matt is a self-taught photographer and works as a creative director in a London ad agency, so the rest of his work is definitely worth checking out too.





[h/t: Lost At E Minor]
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