The city lives: in pixels

You’re looking at shots taken by Jakob Wagner, Jason Mena, Diego Kuffer and Kevin Saint Grey. Each of them has found a different way of using photography, of presenting us with a different way of seeing the city, capturing it’s hidden soul.



The images of “Urban Zoom” by the young German photographer Jakob Wagner draw out the frenetic rhythm of urban life with lines and colours that depict the beating heart of the city. You don’t need the skyline to see that these images capture the energy of New York.



In his recent series “In Transit”, the Brazilian photographer Diego Kuffer captures time in the city, as it unfolds moment by moment. He takes a series of snapshots of the same scene from urban life, then superimposes them to create a collage in chronological order. Digital manipulation thus becomes a tool and an eye with which to view urban life, in pixels.



US photographer Jason Mena has photographed a skyscraper which transcends its physical location to explore universal themes linked to the urban context. The fact that the building is out of focus puts the focus on the oscillatory movement, and that which invisibly conceals itself under the surface of the city: the fragility of the contemporary world. Kevin Saint Grey, with a clean, minimalist style, focuses on the details, and through the particular angle employed, achieves an image of the city in the round. His work subtly delves into the imagination of the observer, who discovers the magic and memory of the past in black and white. All four present us with different aspects of the city. Above all, they make visible the part of its soul that keeps it alive, in all its fragility.




Photos via:
http://jakobwagner.eu/urban.html
http://www.diegokuffer.com.br
http://jasonmena.com/
http://minimalissimo.com/2009/12/kevin-saint-grey

20 December 2010