Category: Architecture

A Brave New World…. Exhibition

My work is shown at a group exhibition in Oxford: A Brave New World at The Town Hall in Oxford, June 2-30, 2011. As part of the Oxford Pride GLBTIQ festival A Brave New World is Oxford Pride’s premier exhibition of new photography and drawing from a cross section of established and emerging queer artists from [...]

Ruins of Detroit

I fell in love with the work of two French men Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre as soon as I saw it. It nurtures my obsession with architectural photography and abandoned, desolate urban landscape. I have posted before on this topic, the most recent post being the work of David Schalliol, who photographs isolated buildings [...]

Isolated buildings – A photosocioeconomic study

I came across David Schalliol‘s work a while ago, probably via Flavorpill, and I have been meaning to post about it for ages. Besides my fascination for architecture and architectural photography, I find David’s work particularly interesting because it’s not only about aesthetics. It also provides a strong and important social comment on the current [...]

Humble LA landscape

John Humble has been documenting the “ironies and paradoxes of the Los Angeles landscape”, as he aptly puts it on his website, for over 25 years. To me his photographs capture the sense of dislocation of LA’s urban landscape well. The city is so vast and spread out that you can’t live there without a [...]

Retro water fountain

I recently went to Sainte-Maxime in the South of France and really enjoyed the warmth and sun that you get there even in November. I found the design of this water fountain very interesting. It’s quite old-fashioned but there is something about it that is very contemporary. I particularly like the minimalistic and sober lines [...]