In these Franco Sortini's photographs there is a photographic story, but it is a kind of crossover in which photography asks a series of questions about the identity of a place and about the emotional aspect of being in a place. So we find that the images of these cities...
Denis Esakov: This is Not a Tower
The story is old: iconic objects crumble into dust or, at best, provide a suitable background for selfies. One dramatic fall from grace has been particularly striking: the shift from tower—a dominant presence in the cityscape asserting supremacy of the modernist idea over man—to “gray concrete box”, from icon to...
Adam Friedberg: Single Story
The last fifteen years or so have seen an enormous increase in the development and construction of new buildings in New York City, especially in downtown Manhattan’s East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, and Bowery neighborhoods. Previously, buildings greater than six stories were less common between the Financial District...
Anastasia Tsayder: Arcadia
Photographer Anastasia Tsayder discovers idyllic 'Arcadia' in Togliatti, a ‘socialist’ city rebuilt in the late 1960s on the bank of the Volga. Soviet standards of housing and infrastructure required mandatory creation of green areas filled with sculptures and fountains. Various potted plants inhabited large empty halls of public institutions -...
Tatevik Vardanyan: Panels
Armenia reestablished its independence nearly 25 years ago with the legacy of Soviet architecture. These buildings across the republic are as fascinating as they are monotonous. Their utilitarian purpose is incorporated into the design: colorless blocks, uniform heights. An idea of creating something similar while giving some differences like the...
Jordi Huisman: Rear Window
The view from the rear of a residential building in an old city exhibits the ways in which people influence their surroundings. When a new building block is designed and built as a single structure and concept it acquires a uniformity and alignment; in older cities a much more fragmented...
Kai Caemmerer: Unborn Cities
Unborn Cities is a body of work that explores the architectural structures and physical growth of new cities located in inner-mainland China. Unlike many Western cities that begin as small developments and grow in accordance to the local industries, gathering community and history as they age, many of the new...
Johannes Heuckeroth: Cityscapes
Johannes Heuckeroth is German photographer and designer based Nuremburg. About his work he says: The central essence of my photographic work is the search for beauty. I am searching for this beauty all over the world in architecture, land- and cityscapes. I want to create and share my interpretation of the reality....
Kevin Krautgartner: Black and White Architecture Photography
Kevin Krautgartner was born 1988 in Schwelm, Germany. He graduated from University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund with a degree in photography and graphic design. He has since been living in Wuppertal, where he has mainly been working as a professional photographer and image editor. His work has taken him to many different countries...
Raphael Olivier: North Korea Vintage Architecture
Raphael Olivier is a french photographer based in Shanghai, China, with an interest for urban development and mega-city lifestyles. He works on commercial assignments around Asia covering architecture, interiors, corporate, industrial, hotels & resorts, lifestyle and documentary. Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a.k.a North Korea),...