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Peter Stewart, ‘Stacked’ Hong Kong Skyscrapers, 2015

Peter Stewart is among a rare breed of modern artists, breaking the mold with his conceptual based imagery and unique style of fine art travel photography. He is born in Australia, but with half his life spent living in England. In 2014, he decided to fully embrace the nomadic lifestyle and sold all of his possessions (minus the cameras naturally), in order to travel almost exclusively full-time. Subsequently moving to Hong Kong as a second home upon which to base his movements around Asia. It was here that Peter cemented his style of hyperreal architecture photography, finding inspiration in the patterns and shapes of the high rise estates strewn all across the city. 

Australian travel and cityscape fine art photographer - Peter Stewart captures these stunning images from the most densely populated places in the world – Hong Kong. This series ‘Stacked‘, Stewart played with the perspectives as well as using the architecture to create some sort of patterns. The idea for “Stacked” project really came about as an evolution of his own interests in photography, and a desire to see parts of the city not often seen by tourists or viewpoints perhaps ignored by those who live there. Peter had been shooting in Hong Kong since 2009 when he first fell in love with the city. As he started taking more images, more thought was given to factors like patterns, reputation, lines, symmetry. It was then he started seeing things a little differently, and this has influenced him greatly in how he searches for and find new locations to shoot.

Peter Stewart said, “I lust for capturing bustling cityscapes and dynamic landscapes wherever my passport will take me, but I also have a growing passion for street portraiture and documentary photography of the sights that go otherwise unseen.”

Fully embracing a completely digital workflow to produce and manipulate his images, Peter continues to strive for that look he says hinges on the edge of fantasy. The use of vibrant color and deep texture are just some of the hallmarks of his images. 

https://www.peterstewartphotography.com/Portfolio/Stacked-Hong-Kong/

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Tolis Tatolas, Abstract Architecture Photography

Tolis Tatolas was born in Greece and currently lives and works in Athens as a visual artist. He has been a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece since 2014. Tatolas' artistic interests focus on geometry and abstraction and on how they can reflect ideas and conditions, and create and communicate feelings in a way similar to representational art. Creatively, he employs a holistic approach to aesthetics, within a framework of the unity of all arts.

This group of black and white shots, which are selections of a broader set of architectural photography, focus on abstraction. Lines and building blocks, both in indoor and outdoor shooting, all together create sharp-edged forms, visual routes, and symmetries. The quest to capture the virtual extension of lines, the perspective and the way out in between the lines, is vital. Symmetries are created among the lines separating material from light. There is no sign of earth or ground in the frame, nor man-made curved surfaces – the sky, though is vastly present. The total absence of human figure leaves sizes and scale vague in every shot. Most of the subjects presented have a direct reference to 20th-century architecture. The approach draws away from the 'classical' aspect, as far as building and space photography is concerned. Black and white is used, in order to reach a basic – primary – substratum of aesthetic expression. These capture record and study the definition of forms, without the surplus of information that color accumulates in relevance with the pictured subject.  Picasso once explained, during his experimentation on abstraction: 'Colors are only symbols; reality is to be found in lightness alone'.

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Alexander Jacques, Architectural Patterns, 2014

Alexander Jacques is a French photographer and in the series of images attached you can see well-known buildings in Paris, New York, and Brisbane has been portrayed as a series of abstract art images. By capturing the exteriors of buildings without surrounding context, he has made us, the audience, forget at first that it’s a building and rather abstract surfaces made of symmetry, lines, and patterns.

Jacques aims his camera at a distinct point on structural landmarks in Paris, new york and Brisbane, honing in on a very specific piece of the overall tower. the chosen exteriors may be considered invasive modern towers by many, yet the artist’s captures present them in a completely alternative manner, accentuating instead the patterns, horizontals and various linear arrangements that are seemingly boundless. rhythmic golden strands represent the new york times building by Renzo piano and a dizzying floral ornaments describe Paris’ tour Ariane. the aesthetic alliterations ‘lose the viewer in a world where boundaries disappear. 

The photographer Alexander Jacques, wants to give us another perspective on the buildings and architecture that we see amongst our city life. He can offer a new perspective on what others deem to be ordinary, and he does this very effectively. The fact that he does this without a lot of post-production makes his idea and work more powerful.

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Ola Kolehmainen, Exhibition, 2011~2014

Born in Helsinki, Finland 1964 | Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Ola Kolehmainen is an internationally distinguished photographer who is known for his minimalistic and abstract close-ups that depict details, surfaces, and patterns of architecture, such as steel, glass, and tile. Modern architecture has been Kolehmainen’s main inspiration for over a decade, such as Alvar Aalto and Mies van der Rohe. Instead of photographing solely buildings, Kolehmainen is interested in finding details, making the viewer question the way a building is perceived. He aims to eliminate the visual pollution that often makes us miss architectural materials and forms. Recently Kolehmainen has shifted away from his traditional minimalism, and expanded into a complex approach dealing with space, light, and colour in his first exhibition centered around historical architecture. Kolehmainen photographed Byzantium (400–600’s) and Ottoman period (1500–1600's) religious buildings in Istanbul for half a year. In addition to their historical dimension, the artist probes the buildings’ architectural volumes and light ratios: the buildings’ interiors and structural details reveal the changing light of days and seasons. The photographs textured ornamentation reflects historical layers and decorative interiors. Space and light are masterfully handled in his images to successfully capture the sublime essence of these historic buildings, which radiate the mosques’ mystical quality.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ola-kolehmainen/

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Nicholas Goodden, Minimal Urban Photography, 2016

Nicholas Gooddenve has been a marketer, writer/content creator and a professional London photographer specialized mostly in creating exciting visual content for global brands.

A key thing he does is stay up to date with the latest marketing and photography trends to then get these two to meet in a happy place.

As someone who lives fairly close to London, the word "minimal' is not often associated with it at all - there are lots of things, all the time, everywhere. Nicholas captured some wonderfully minimal shots of the English capital's architecture. Obviously, there is some Photoshop being used to mess around with exposures and colours, but that does not take away from the fact these shots are epic.

https://www.nicholasgooddenphotography.co.uk/minimal-urban-photography

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Zsolt Hlinka, 'Corner Symmetry', 2017

Zsolt Hlinka is a photographer beside his own job. Photography area of artistry is the one which really gives him a chance to express himself. He is looking for geometry and symmetry obsessively in each composition and created imaginary places out of real architectural forms. 

Hlinka' s the latest series called 'Corner Symmetry' features intersecting buildings in Budapest that have been split in half and mirrored in the center of the composition, which takes the ideas from ‘Urban Symmetry’ and brings them one step forward. The result produces an extreme perspective of a stunning cityscape, where the top of the structures is angled at 45 degrees. 

With much of Hlinka’s abstract architecture photography, people cannot help but think these buildings are real. It is only after we have spent time with each picture that we realize they are two halves of the same whole. This momentary confusion is all of Hlinka’s design. Buildings keep more of their surroundings with them, so the illusion becomes even more realistic: however, no matter which side of these familiar looking buildings do we start our inspection first, we will always end up on the same points.

Corner Symmetry expands on Hlinka’s earlier project called Urban Symmetry. For that series, he digitally manipulated straight-on views of buildings to create harmonious reflections against similarly monochromatic backgrounds. They have a distinctly Wes Anderson feel that’s both whimsical yet curious—leaving people wondering what’s behind the doors of these isolated structures.

His ideas from ‘Urban Symmetry’ - https://www.behance.net/gallery/30461385/Urban-Symmetry

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Vin Rathod, The series ‘Stories of Spectrum’, 2013

Vin is a Sydney based photographer and travels in Australia and around the world for photography projects.

Vin’s photography pursuit developed during his architectural education where he developed an understanding of various design elements such as brightness and darkness, colours and shades, composition and importance of negative spaces, etc. His interests are buildings, urban landscapes, city fabric, design models, art and art installations in real as well as an abstract form.

For Vin's works, on the harbour of Sydney, during the nights of May and June, Lights turned on for Vivid Sydney 2012, and Spectrum told Stories, Facades turned to canvases, and for some time, Architecture of the harbour became a piece of literature.

The photographs in this series convey rays of colourful lights told stories and for some time, the architecture of the Museum of Contemporary Art became a piece of literature. Also, his works present the presence of the Aura around architecture that influences thoughts, actions, and reactions of all surrounding objects. While using creative photography to highlight the nature of the subject, each image itself becomes a wonderful work of art.

"In parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice, an 'Aura' is a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object." - Wikipedia

http://www.throughvinslens.com/stories-of-spectrum.html

http://www.throughvinslens.com/aura1.html

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Julia Anna Gospodarou, Architecture Fine Art Prints, 2012

Julia Anna Gospodarou is An accomplished architect, internationally acclaimed photographer, author and highly sought-after educator, teaching workshops and lecturing around the world. Julia was passionate about art from a young age, striving to express herself artistically through a variety of mediums: architecture, drawing, and photography. Also, she is IPA International Photography Awards Professional Architecture Photographer of the Year, and in the World Photography Awards and Hasselblad Masters Finalist, she is the winner of more than 80 prestigious international awards and distinctions, so Julia is considered a leader of the New Wave of 21st Century Black and White Fine Art Photography. 

Julia is mostly known for her black and white long exposure architectural photography, which is her signature style and also the genre that speaks most to her artistic sensibility. To create this different symbolic world in her images, she finds that black and white gives her the richest emotion and depth, the most powerful symbols and the most exhilarating artistic stimuli. As creative tools, she uses various techniques in both capturing the image, like long exposure, motion blur etc., and in processing the image, like her black and white processing technique Photography Drawing, which is a system of creating light and shadow in the same way painters and drawers do, to induce a certain feeling to the viewer and make him part of the world he creates in her images. She allows herself total freedom in creating this world, so she can build an image that didn’t necessarily exist in the outside world, but that exists in her mind and in my soul.


Adept of the idea that processing a photograph is at least as important as capturing it, in order to give it a piece of the mind and soul of the artist and express his unique vision and  sensibility, Julia's work goes beyond the boundaries of traditional photography and enters the fields of imagination and of searching for a perfect world and for the expression of this world through images. Her aim is to suggest a different way of looking at buildings by emphasizing and presenting almost abstract details of a structure, without though removing completely the factor of scale, form, and context that could help identify the object.

In addition, Julia is the founder of (en)Visionography ™ that is a movement aiming to define a new way of creating fine art photography, which based on the vision of the artist and his own life experiences rather than on depicting the actual subject or the conventions of traditional photography. (en)Visionography introduces the concept of “total artistic freedom” in photography, which brings it closer to the idea of art. Also, (en)Visionography is steadily gaining support around the world from artists eager to create authentic personal art. 

There is no single meaning or universal truth in art, but each artist has his own interpretation that depends in a large measure on his personal emotions and beliefs. She sees fine art photography, and just like art as a manifestation of the artist’s emotion in front of the world as well as a manifestation of his life experiences,  which materialized into his artistic vision and eventually into his photography. This results in her seeing her photography as  “autobiographical photography”, intertwined with her life and fueled by the emotions her interaction with the world triggers.

https://www.juliaannagospodarou.com/Architecture/Architecture/

https://leannecole.com.au/introducing-artists-that-i-admire-julia-anna-gospodarou/

https://www.dodho.com/architectural-photography-of-julia-anna-gospodarou/

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Swee Oh, San Francisco Fine Art

Swee Oh is an internationally acclaimed Architecture Photographer who is based in San Francisco, California USA. She is originally from Malaysia. Her professional background in architecture and her artistic eye combine to create stunning architectural photographs that have won prestigious awards. Swee's visual world is deeply influenced by how she uses light, form, shadows, and textures in her work.

Her background in architecture influences how she interprets a building through photography.  When she is designing she think of space, lines, volumes, positive/negative space, the experience when one moves around and through the building.  All of these intuitions help her to understand a building better, and enable her to reveal and highlight its essence in the images she produces.

She enjoys the challenge of combining both the artistic and the technical in her photography, to achieve a story that will attract the attention of a viewer. Photographing details or textures.  Studying different angles that capture her attention.  Making use of light, contrast, and shadows to create depth.  Of course, framing and composition are crucial in constructing the narrative of the image.

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Davide Sasso, ‘The romance of Florence’, 2017

Davide Sasso is an Italian photographer who captured the romance of Florence. Though Italy is home to some absolutely incredible cities, there’s something truly magical about Florence. Hailed as the ‘birthplace of the Renaissance’, the Tuscan capital boasts spectacular art and architecture around every turn, with Michelangelo’s iconic David statue housed in its Accademia Gallery. Davide visited this city, taking a series of photographs that perfectly capture its romantic, old-worldly charm. He chose Florence city to visit because it’s the cradle of the Renaissance and its great historical importance. 

Davide tells Lonely Planet. “There are churches, works of art and beautiful facades around every corner. It’s the cradle of the Renaissance, and its great historical importance was certainly one of the reasons I chose to visit. Florence offered a stage that great artists like Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, and Leonardo da Vinci used to make their works and creative genius known.”

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Julian Schulze, Berlin meets Warsaw: A tale of two cities, 2018

Julian Schulze lives currently in Berlin, Germany. He loves abstract and surreal photography and he is always looking for inspiring architecture. What he really liked about this facade were the awesome geometrical window designs. The triangular shapes and shadows combined to a wonderful abstract feeling. In this project, I will give you some impressions from my Warsaw journey. This will be accompanied by architectural shots from Berlin.

Also, his personal approach to photography is to focus on the very basic elements of architecture. The picture above was a start to figure out these basics. After some experimentation, he realized that his favorite composition resulted from another viewpoint. The above picture portrays this viewpoint and was a starting point to crop the picture into a 1:1 square format. As he would have found window details to distract from the abstract shapes he wanted to highlight, he cropped the image in a way that excluded the windows frames.

In addition, he was pretty happy with the composition, but of course, it needed some post-processing to accentuate the textures, the different shapes, and to adjust the brightness/tone curve of the photograph.  Finally, he decided to convert some image into Black & White as I really liked the different greys and forms that manifested with the desaturation.

https://www.julianschulze.com/work

https://www.behance.net/Einsilbig

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Gabor Estefan, Best of artistic & minimal photos, 2018

Gabor Estefan is a photographer, creative professional and content creator currently living in London. He enjoys architecture, still life and nature photography. This series of photographs are his best photos from 2017-2018, also his personal favourites. His goal was to create a unique, dreamy look on these photos, following the current fashion in photography. His works show that he is perfectly composed aesthetic images are filled with emotions, beautiful colours to become great mood boosters. Pink blue and green were the colours of his first brand that represented happiness, style, fresh air, purity, and nature. He always creates his photos for others, and not for himself and these were the most popular colours on Instagram at that time, so that is why he chose them. Also, he believes that photography can bring happiness into everyone’s life and images are more powerful than the world because they can last forever. He loves traveling, discovering beautiful places, drinking cocktails and chasing sunsets. He is living the creative life, which means he is a dreamer and sometimes he acts like a 5-year-old child, but this is what makes the work with him fun. He is open to your ideas and goes an extra mile to make sure you get exactly what you want and even more… Due to his creative mind, he is able to go beyond imagination and create artworks that you have never seen before.

https://opencreativeworld.com/

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Theo Luycx, architectural and abstract photography

Theo Luycx excels in architectural and abstract photography.  He loves to play with lines and shapes. His creative mind results in outstanding photographs. The most important experiences have influenced his art. He will not call his photos art but when he placed his photos on the Internet for the magazine Zoom, I saw nice architecture images. That was the reason he concentrated on this part of photography. In his work, he had more than 25 years of attention for shapes and colours. He is appalled by the architecture and abstract photographs. He said "And of course architecture consists of buildings and these are closely related to what I did in my job with products or machinery. The designers made several studies and models of a project and then we had a discussion about shapes and colours. And sometimes we had a discussion about very small details. But at last, you had a product to be proud of ". That is what he finds now in this kind of photography for himself.

Also, for him, technical perfection is the most important. For me, technical perfection is the most important. For architecture, I am always looking for new projects. I look for information about buildings and I go to Google street view to see the location. And for abstract you have to use your eyes very well, every well-chosen detail can give you a published photo. Holland is a nice country but it is difficult to make excellent landscapes. His favourite photographer is Piet Haaksma who makes them.

https://1x.com/member/theolu

https://1x.com/blog/permalink/7923

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Gilbert Claes, Abstract Architecture, 2016 - 2017

Gilbert Claes describes himself as “the painting photographer, or the camera-wielding painter”. Early on, he was drawn to the linear aesthetics of his surroundings and actually wanted to become an architect, but his life had other plans. In 2009, he photographs his “dreams,” as he likes to call his art photos, meanwhile, Gilbert rediscovered art photography of architecture anew and fell in love with digital photographs and found Photoshop the perfect instrument to transform my photographs into paintings. He joined many photo sites all over the world and at these sites, he discovered the power of his creativity and developed his own style, which makes him became a well-known photographer in the genre of the Abstract style.  

He like Modern Art and he is thrilled by minimalistic work. He is a fan of 'suprematism' so that his art of architecture photography lives on lines, circles, triangles, squares and other geometrical shapes, which breathe life from vivid colours and strong contrasts. While it may seem easy – it is not. He always tries to create a pure and minimalistic look with a strong composition. He uses a mix of colours, lines, movement, and objects. He wants his images to be transformed into a painting, which contains a lot of emotion. To accomplish this he uses creative editing as needed. For the moment, photography is more than a passion and it is his lifestyle. Gilbert Claes wants his art photos to be pure emotion, and for each of them to carry a part of himself.

https://www.photocrowd.com/gilclaes/

http://gilclaes.1x.com/gallery

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Sergio Castiglione, 'Urban Mirrors', 2012

Sergio Castiglione is an architect and an Argentine fine art urban photographer. He wrote for architecture publications and became photo correspondent in Europe and the USA. He mainly engaged in urban exploration, tourism, architectural photography. He has visited more than two hundred cities all over the world and has captured in his photos the trait that made each of them unique from his artistic viewpoint.  'Urban Mirrors' works show Buenos Aires has a wealth of important buildings and architectural heritage, which are a singular tour along with the architectural landmarks of the fifteen districts of the city of Buenos Aires through reflections of water, lagoons, fountains or ponds. These mirror images on the water are spirited metaphors that take us back to our first surreal experiences at a young age. Castiglione scouts the changing urban landscape and buildings by discovering a "new" territory.

Sergio Castiglione’s work shows that when we walk around Buenos Aires, and probably around every city, we only observe the urban space that is at the height of our eyes, or even lower down. He looked at Buenos Aires in another way. ‘Urban Mirrors’ is an invitation to be a part of this new perspective, to get rid of the rational way to see the city. Thus, we might be able to discern the delicate web that connects what is gone, what could have been and what may still possibly be: the warp of being in the world.

https://www.sergiocastiglione.com.ar/espejosurbanos

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Sergio_Castiglione

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Fernando Viscasillas, Birmingham UK, 2018

Fernando Viscasillas is a visual artist with exhibitions in London. Viscasillas paints inspiration from the coast of Galicia, Northwest of Spain, and seascapes and country of Uk where he travels often last years. The works show that everything seems to be coincidental, only accidentally connected with other things, but it is not true. The colours chosen are sometimes provocative rather than real. He placed the images without defined focus and without any perspective. Also, he never made a mistake in the balance or complexity of composition so that everything develops in perfect harmony. This series of works display everyone without removing the flexibility or introducing shapes and hardness into the form and conveys a positive energy style through his satirical description of the theme and several of his architectural styles.

Viscasillas started portraying  Birmingham in 2017 and he often travels in the British city. Viscasillas said that It is now in full swing. There is a spectacular growth of architecture from Victorian buildings to actually projects. Birmingham is going to become one of the most dynamic, strong, with a young spirit and cosmopolitan cities in Europe.

Silvana Cagnolo, the gallery owner in Bologna, said in 2005: "It is a few years since I have worked with Fernando’s work. We have celebrated art exhibitions in different places in Italy and the rest of Europe, and every time I approach the spectators who observe and meditate in front of one of his painted architectures I realize they are experiencing a deep and touching emotion; I realize they are re-living the landscape of their most intimate memories."

https://www.viscasillasphotos.com/projects.html

https://www.artmajeur.com/zh/viscasillas/artworks