Famed Second Life Photographer Mr Godard Gets Meta With His Latest Snapshot

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This might just be the most perfect way that Mr Godard, a Second Life artist known for his gritty, grainy, hyperrealistic virtual world photography, could have announced his collaboration with a popular SL magazine. Godard is a guest photographer in the September/October 2014 issue of LTD Magazine, an in-world and online publication that focuses on design and decor in SL, and their work together is just about everything you could hope for:

In case you're not familiar, we're huge fans of Mr Godard's work here at NWN. His pics are a perfect example of how adding flaws to often uncannily perfect looking shots of Second Life can almost immediately make them look like an old polaroid you might find tucked in the back of a used book or under a pile of decaying boxes in your attic. While many of the "best" environmental virtual world screenshots look like a place you could go, something you could observe or be swallowed by, Mr Godards look like places and things you could actually feel. That's why even if you're not a regular reader of LTD, Godard's work means you'll absolutely want to peruse their latest issue.

You can read the current issue of LTD here, visit their website here, and of course check out Mr Godard's Flickr stream for even more of his outstanding work.

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Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart on Twitter, Iris Ophelia in Second Life) has been writing about virtual worlds and video games for nearly a decade, and has had her work featured on Paste, Kotaku, Jezebel and The Mary Sue.