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Edwin Seda is a photographer based in Johannesburg, South Africa whose work obsesses about light in photography and the dynamism of the world with changing light and adaptable spaces. His work captures framed images as a vulnerable and dramatically resilient concepts, persuaded by light and the lens as a third dimension.

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- 26 August 2018
- Datum Editorial
Pin Up , Selected Works , Photography , Architectural Photography , Editor's Choice ,

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.

Pin Up: Portraits of a Landscape on the Johannesburg's Circa Gallery Edwin Seda

Architecture lends itself to a multifaceted creative process and photography should therefore simply come in to simplify this process, by breaking down the elements. The set therefore uses light as the sole driver for how these images and the building is explored.

Pin Up: Portraits of a Landscape on the Johannesburg's Circa Gallery Edwin Seda

Here light purely takes centre stage, and as it casts big shadows that make us aware of time and season it does the same to casts small shadows that tells us how tangible architecture is as an opaque addition, and how we can touch these with our hands.

Pin Up: Portraits of a Landscape on the Johannesburg's Circa Gallery Edwin Seda

But even within all these, we exist in these spaces that ultimately do not exist without light, and light then cannot be expressed without these opaque and transparent spaces.

Pin Up: Portraits of a Landscape on the Johannesburg's Circa Gallery Edwin Seda

The images try to bring this out as a state of being. And even as we are limited to photography and in how it portrays the complexities and experiences of space, we can freeze these moments in time and my images of the circa especially try to convey experience of place all through light.

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SELECTED WORKS

- Calabar International Conference Center/ Henning Larsen Architects
- 25 Apr 2015
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- Guelmim Airport / Group 3 Architects
- 18 Aug 2018
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- Victoria 73 House / SAOTA
- 19 Dec 2016
The property had an existing house, which completely under-utilized the site’s fantastic characteristics. The brief called for a dynamic ...

CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIRECTORY

- Corner Jellicoe Avenue and Oxford Road / Paragon Architects
- 13 Jul 2015
The ‘Tiber Rosebank’ development occupies this key site in the fast changing Rosebank node in Johannesburg with confidence. It takes a de...
- Women’s Opportunity Center / Sharon Davis Design
- 21 Jan 2016
Located on a one-hectare site in the Kayonza district in eastern Rwanda, the Women’s Opportunity Center is energizing one small community...
- 30 Jellicoe Avenue/ Paragon Architects
- 12 Apr 2015
Once again Paragon Architects presents us with an award winning debatably classically but highly environmental conscious building that re...