Erik Petersen
Copenhagen, 1940-1945
Street, 2012
The Commute, 2011
Keegan Gibbs
All Aboard, 2010
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I hope this makes some of you in a better mood. Because I’m feeling quite over the day. But this helps a bit.
This is so cute… I wanna hug the little thing!
I was angry. And then I saw this!
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This digital project by Paris-based photographer Thierry Cohen is an imaginative tale about how urban landscapes might appear if we turned out all of the lights. In a big city glowing with street lamps, store signs, car headlights, and rows of illuminated apartment buildings, it’s almost impossible to see the stars in the sky. One project review says, “Atmospheric and light pollution combine to make looking into the urban sky like looking past bright headlights while driving.”
To bring a sense of nature back into these environments, Cohen has taken a bit of a scientific approach. He travels to places free from light pollution and captures the skies that rotate on the same axis as the urban skylines. Those same skies that were at some point visible above the cities are then superimposed into the darkened cityscapes.
The result is Darkened Cities, Cohen’s project in which cold, dark, and desolate cityscapes sit below these atmospheric wonders overhead. In a sense, Cohen is bringing a forgotten nature back into these places. His darkened landscapes are a frightening visual of what it might look like if a city had to be completely shut down. His images are a reminder of the magical beauty of nature and through this project, he encourages viewers to take a step back from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and to appreciate—most importantly, not take for granted—the natural world around us.
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“By placing her subjects in the streets with her signature ethereal aesthetic, de Waroquier builds a surreal environment to reflect their wandering souls walking through atypically real territories. Each person appears lost, as though they have encountered an unexpected obstacle in their dreams. What would normally be a private dream filled with enchantment for each subject to play out in his or her own mind has turned into a public display for all to see on the brutally cold and hard streets. The photographer says, “I tried to express all these fears and tensions through symbolical pictures which represent what happens when the deepest realities of the human mind meet the harsh reality of public spaces.”
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