The New York based graphic artist, who goes by the name of Peejet on social media, became well known in 2014 with his various photoshop edits of him with celebrities. His work’s interesting as most people think of appropriation as being very arty or having some deep impacting meaning, but not Peejet, his work solely revolves around him adding humour to otherwise quite mundane images of celebrities. It’s also note worthy that, unlike other appropriation artists, none of the owners of the images he uses or any of the celebrities in them have tried to take legal action against him despite him selling prints and various other forms of merchandise with his appropriated images on.
His photoshop skills are exceptional but I’m going to try and imitate at least one form of image in his style as I like the use of humour within his images and how subtly he fits himself into them.
Peejets website: http://www.itspeejet.com/
Not many of his appropriated images are on his website (his Instagram is full of them), but it’s interesting to see how his online success of appropriation has created a huge window of opportunity for him, his audience is that big* that he now sells T-shirts with his face on them.
*Has almost 250,000 followers on instagram, and over 20,000 on both Facebook and Twitter.