Sonja Braas Firestorm, from the series The Quiet of Dissolution

For its new exhibition, the Parasol unit gallery has collected together artists who uncover the weirdness beating at the heart of placid landscapes• Magical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography is at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, until 19 June 2016.

Photo: Sonja Braas, Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery

Uncanny Views

Julie Monaco intially appears to be taking photos amid turbulent landscapes, but she’s actually safe and dry indoors, creating them using computer algorithms

Photo: Julie Monaco

Jörg Sasse

German artist Jörg Sasse creates manipulations of existing images by scanning them, digitally altering them, and then making new negatives to develop from – resulting in images that play with reality

Photo: Jörg Sasse, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Julie Monaco MC

A swirling cloudscape emerges from another of Monaco’s digital interventions

Photo: Julie Monaco

Jörg Sasse

Another of Sasse’s digitally altered images – all of which are numbered in a four-digit code, a filing system for his computer

Photo: Jörg Sasse, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn