Biography
Invisible Cities. This project is placed in the context of artistic urban photography as well as night photography. Urban photography is as old as photography itself, but an artistic use of this subject was pioneered by Alfred Stieglitz, in the early 1900s. He proved that cityscapes can have an aesthetic value. Today, new types of media, such as video, pose a challenge to architectural photography. My work aims to show that photography competes successfully with these media, as it is possible to create 'new', imaginary landscapes through a combination of shots. This project is an experiment to apply the technique of collage and produce an imaginary ‘panorama’ of high-rise buildings and other urban features seen by night. The pictures each consist of three images tightly juxtaposed in one frame. For my idea of a panoramic impression furnished by triple images I relied on McLuhan's philosophy regarding the extension of vision. By joining images, you transcend the need to read sequences sequentially. Hilliard and Scott McFarland also ‘compressed’ time into single images. The result combines elements of collage, minimalism, and voyeurism.
