Photography Exhibition THE WAY WE LIVE (in the eye of the architect)
CATEGORY 3: THE CITY AND ITS HERITAGE
Author: Arnab Ghosal
Country: India
Title: “Where Memories Resides”
Place : Mtskheta, Georgia.
Description: Day by day we are putting our lives into boxes. Life in flats and apartments detaches us from the earth, from nature. Everything is artificial day to day in our life. In this ancient structure in Georgia, I found some memories. Memories of ancient living space and juxtaposition a present-day living. It’s a combination of two images to create the story.
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© Arnab Ghosal, “Where Memories Resides”
Author: Darnia Hobson
Series: “Contradictions”
Title 1: “Anchor”
Title 2: “Chambers”
Title 3: “Fold”
Title 4: “Monolith”
Title 5: “Pulpit”
Place: Christchurch, New Zealand
Description: These images form part of a larger series depicting new and rebuilt buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand post a large series of devastating earthquakes. This destroyed the majority of the central business district and has meant a prolonged rebuilding phase which is still far from complete over 10 years later. I chose an impressionist drawing based style to record the feeling of contradiction in the city; the style, mood and the mixture of new and old. I hoped that the motion would capture an ephemerality, a essence of space, both fleeting and timeless at once. The pictures capture new architecture, framing and bracing temporarily holding things upright and completed restorations of historic buildings. The city has been recovered from the brink and I have captured this story over the past year as a record of new beginnings a definite revival. These are single exposure images with little post production work as I prefer to do all the work in camera, redrawing a moment in time.
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Author: Josep Sánchez
Country: Spain, Barcelona
Title: “Modernism”
Place: The largest modernist complex in the world is located in Barcelona.
Description: It is the greatest work of the Barcelona architect Domènech i Montaner, the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, who created a small city made up of isolated buildings surrounded by 16,000 square meters of gardens. Since 1997 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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© Josep Sánchez, “Modernism”
Author: Pierre Moulin
Country: France
Title: “The Stone Factor”
Place: Marseille, France
Description: Here is a shot of a residential building in Marseille, with a beautiful carving work that represents the history of the metropolis in a general design that is rather modern (60s-70s). It is a solid stone build with an optimistic, understated intention, confident about the future, at that time, with bold features (the entrance like an echo) that surely underlines the state of mind of the architect. What we see in the photo is the usual urban graffiti, the perpetual mediterranean light, and a tree. But what stays with me is the choice of materials with the spartan-like structure: limestone and a contemporary tiling of a harder stone to challenge the test of time. An Homage to the City.
© Pierre Moulin, “The Stone Factor”
Author: Abdulrahman Ali Bin-Break
Title: “The Skyscrapers of Desert”
Place: Shibam Hadramout, Yemen
Description: A historical house made of mud based on the principle of vertical construction in the old walled city of shibam which is considered a UNESCO World Heritage place in Yemen.
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© Abdulrahman Ali Bin-Break, “The Skyscrapers of Desert”
Author: Dibakar Roy
Title: “Two by two”
Place: Kolkata, India.
Description: Our old Calcutta has changed to a A1 city Kolkata but till our North Kolkata's people are living their colonial life in an old big building.
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© Dibakar Roy, “Two by two”
Author: Sofia Erto
Title: “Blue”
Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: I took this picture in Edinburgh at sunset. This corner, very close to the old town, captured my attention because it completely clashes with the fascinating medieval architecture of the surroundings.
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© Sofia Erto, “Blue”
Author: Jing Yuan Huang
Title: “Traditional and Modern”
Place: Taipei, Taiwan
Description: The building in front of the photo is the Grand Hotel in Taipei. The exterior of the Grand Hotel references a Chinese palace, and its splendor contrasts with the modern cityscape behind it. This shows the fusion of different styles of architecture in the city, which some see as a conflict. However, such cultural integration can demonstrate the diversity and inclusiveness of a city.
© Jing Yuan Huang, “Traditional and Modern”
Author: Bia Serranoni
Title: “Resistance 1 / Resistance 2”
Place: Salvador, Brazil
Description: The pace of contemporaneity in big cities encourages the abandonment of old constructions and the turning of the eyes toward the new. In cities where the housing deficit is still very large, the non-use of these old structures for shelter and housing shows how much the city is a priority for those who hold the capital.
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Author: Kim Injae
Country: South Korea
Title of Series: Report on the chimney
Description: With rapid industrialization and technological development, the city's time and space are changing rapidly. Urban Regeneration is a way to utilize abandoned factories that have been neglected for decades. Some abandoned factories have been designated as urban cultural spaces or industrial cultural heritages and are being planned as new urban spaces. These spaces are my photo spots. The traces of the workers disappeared out of the stage of time and could not be captured, but the stories of those people exist in the old and faded factory structures. I want my images to illuminate an era of abandoned products of the industrial age that have been neglected for a long time, and serve as an indicator to reflect on the industrial heritage and move forward into the future. Skyscraper-like chimneys towering over faded, fenced-off buildings, both past and present, demonstrate human desire.
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