John Goto was born in Stockport, England in 1949 and is best known for his photo-digital artworks. He now works as a professor of Fine Art at the University of Derby after his successful career that started in the late 1960's when he studied Fine Art at St. Martins School of Art, London where an interest in the narrative forms of European cinema lead him to the medium of Photography. From there, he produced a series of photographs in 1977 of culturally significant portraits of young people in Lewisham that was entitled 'Lovers Rock', however, the photo was not published or exhibited until 2011.
I have looked at Goto's work and you can see that he has taken many photographs of different subjects and digitally manipulated them so as they all become one image. To do this he would have to use at least 2 images and cut our the focus point that you want and paste it on to the other image and may have used techniques such as blurring and smudging to make the pasted objects seem more realistic.
I like Goto's work because it is creative in the fact that it is fairly obviously digitally manipulated and it gives the quality of child-like and fun to the photo. This work is also similar to our task of producing a fantasy landscape as his work is a creative fantasy as him images are very unrealistic.
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