The eye with which photographers interpret the metropolitan areas is one of the issues that most fascinates me in photography, and it’s why I’m crazy about the work of Michael Wolf.
The German photographer became famous with urban landscapes using Google Street View, the instrument with which he managed to express the concept of urban density and building expansion without end. In the project “Architecture of Density” the city of Hong Kong is represented by tall buildings that form abstract compositions of colors and the windows of skyscrapers become pixel pattern repeated endlessly.
The visual impact is certainly very strong and exciting at the same time!
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- The last series produced by Wolf, “Paris Abstract”, has instead been taken entirely from photographer’s parisian home and has as its subject the roofs of the French capital. With these shots the city reaches “an equilibrium of monotony and chaos” created by the repetition of the chimneys and, as in the most poetic of the pictures, look at the city from a different point of view.
Photos via Michael Wolf