This set is new images by Edwin Seda, explores how portraits, (and here portraits being people and the building itself as a portrait canvas on the urban landscape) interacts and engages with light through offering itself as both opaque and transparent artefacts in architectural photography.
New images have been released by Edwin Seda in a recent partnership with the French Architects Patrick Schweitzer et Associés Architectes whose Kigali Architecture School architecture is inspired by the territory and by colors and shapes found in Nature. The four natural elements are represented in the conception of the building: Fire: orange color, Water: inner garden, Air: circulations, and E...
Four weeks ago I had the rabbit's foot fortune of visiting the new Sasol Headquarters in Sandton Johannesburg by Paragon Architects. The idea that sustainability is bland is dead now in the contemporary realm. We live in the evermore ostentatious and intrinsic ability to combine both sustainability and aesthetic within corporate architecture and the Sasol Headquarters is taking the front line t...
A new generation of African artists are emerging, a sort of renaissance within the continent of awareness and character, an awakening that has seen expression at various levels of art. Xixo Collective, a group of Kenyan creatives have just released a time lapse portrait of Nairobi through the magnificent collective of Sigma and Canon lenses with a mission of creating possibilities.
A simple explanation will describe Iwan Baan as a Dutch photographer. A more metaphysical outlook of him is that of an artist who among others has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building's environment, trying "to produce more of a story or a feel for a project" and "to communicate how peop...
This week’s pin up dwells on a particularly peculiar set of lenses. The Creative visual arts of Justin Plunkett. He is a South African visual artist based in Switzerland, whose works collide mostly between the culture of creativity in Switzerland versus South Africa, all imbued in strategic intent and this set of images, handled for the Construct Exhibition in Capetown, he re-imagines photogra...
This series of images captures Boogertman + Partners African induced stadium "The FNB" through the lens of South African photographer Tristan McLaren. Endless fascination with the human condition and the places that mankind defines by buildings are the strongest creative influences for Tristan. Consequently, he divides his efforts primarily between the genres of portraiture - often in studio - ...