Revellers take part in New Year's Eve celebrations in Kyiv, Ukraine on December 31, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

People in full medieval armor take part in a combat at Central Park in New York, U.S., August 14, 2021. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

American actress Kiernan Shipka takes a mirror selfie in the last decade of February 2022. (Photo by kiernanshipka/Instagram)

A cycle-rickshaw puller takes a nap during a hot afternoon along a street in Amritsar on April 19, 2022. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)

Devotees gather to take part in the celebrations to mark the Krishna Janmashtami festival at a temple in Jalandhar on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Shammi Mehra/AFP Photo)

You might think Ysabel LeMay’s works are hyper-realistic paintings but they’re created through an innovative technique called photo fusion. The Quebec-born, U.S.-based artist takes hundreds of photographs for each piece, attunes the light and visual properties, then assembles one detail at a time in a painterly fashion to form a single composition. Each work takes 4 to 8 weeks on average.

Participants dressed as Santa Claus take part in the Great Edinburgh Santa Run on December 11, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Around a thousand people took part in the annual fundraising event, with all money raised being donated to the charity “When You Wish Upon a Star”. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

Members of the English Defence League (EDL) take part in a demonstration through the streets of Leicester on February 4, 2012 in Leicester, England. Up to two thousand members of the EDL gathered in the centre of Leicester as an opposing demonstration by anti-fascists held their protest nearby. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)