Liu Bolin: "Camouflage"

Liu Bolin is a Beijing based artist who painstakingly paints his subjects to blend in with their surroundings.

Incredible.

He's repped by Galerie Bertin-Toublanc.

Oh man, the photo of the two men? Standing and seated? Mind-blowing.

So, is he a painter? Or is he a photographer? Or do we just say artist?
Discuss.

(Saw it at designboom.)