Behind the facade, first distillation

July 7th, 2011 | by Simon |

I started playing around with the images I shot yesterday, in an attempt to reach for the gist of what has been attracting me to these spaces. The first thing that came to mind is to distill them by dropping all color information, including tone. I lost some of them in the process, but I think the ones that survived are starting to reveal forms and relationships that weren’t very apparent in the originals. Here are the results:

 

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  1. 3 Responses to “Behind the facade, first distillation”

  2. By Genevieve on Aug 4, 2011 | Reply

    I really like these pictures. They have an eerie quality and a beauty too, surprising in its simplicity.

  3. By Simon on Aug 12, 2011 | Reply

    Thanks. Though eerie isn’t really what I was going for here – it’s more of a photographic analysis of these places. Maybe it’s just my brain projecting things onto them, but then again I wouldn’t know how to stop it from doing that.

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