Kurt Stallart’s Photographs Ask: What If We Were All Bodybuilders?

Ever wondered what the world would look like if it was inhabited by humans who look like they could go the distance with Thor? Belgian photographer Kurt Stallaert has and it’s rather disconcerting. It’s also weirdly transfixing. His photo series Bodybuilders World sports digitally altered images of regular folks with bodies of rippling muscle. We’re especially freaked out by the angelic-faced schoolgirls who look as though they have been superimposed onto a troop of shaved gorillas.

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-02

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-03

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-04

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-05

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-06

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-07

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-08

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-09

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-10

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-11

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-12

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-13

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-14

kurt-stallaert-bodybuilders-world-15