Text and picture by Eki Qushay Akhwan
Urban environments may look visually chaotic. But to the discerning eyes of photographers and visual artists, this chaos is just a facade beneath which are hidden an infinite number of interesting elements ready to be discovered if only one can pay enough attention to the details and/or rhythms that make up that chaos. This, I think, what urban photography essentially is: an attempt to discover "order" in what looks like incomprehensible and chaotic realities.
In exploring urban photography, a genre of photography which is generally still categorized as a subform of documentary and/or street photography, a photographer needs to be creative and have a daring attitude to see the realities around them in different ways. One way to do it is to look for patterns, like what I did with this photograph, which I took at BEC (Bandung Electronic Center) parking lot a couple of days ago.
4 comments:
Oui, vous avez raison, en prenant certains éléments, en cadrant certains aspects, on peut trouver de la beauté dans un univers qui semble quelconque. C'est l'art du photographe.
WEll done. I would have walked right past that one. I love your explanations regarding street photography and now urban photography. You are a great teacher, Eki. Is that what you do??? I am trying so hard to see what you all see. It's so obvious in your photos and then when I go out, it escapes my lens.
I think our "eye" looks for symmetry as a throw back to our earliest genetics. I will have to take a look when we go into our city..if we ever get there Eki.. --Michelle--
Eki, you are an artist and a teacher as well as an amazing photographer. I LOVE this. And I would have walked right by, too. I need to explore more urban photography, too. I love finding art in the mundane -- order in seemingly chaotic places.
Love this.
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