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Photography: Exploring the World's Longest Art Gallery
Let's kick it off with the work of Conor MacNeill who is a fine art, landscape and travel photographer based in London, UK. With a following network of more than 250K people, we are following Conor's work from all over the Globe from Japan, Iceland, China and you name it. Today we are exploring the World's Longest Art Gallery which is commonly known as the Stockholm Metro. The tunnel rail (tunnelbana) system in Stockholm is more than 105 km (65 miles) long and has 100 stations. Give it a look and I truly believe this place should be marked for your bucket list to be discovered at least once in your lifetime. More Links Learn more aobut Conor MacNeill at thefella.com Follow Conor on Instagram Photography
Underground Symmetry - Photography
With the practice of photography, you become entirely more aware of your surroundings. You would appreciate the emptiness of a certain locations and chasing that perspective especially in crowded places. For my case, I’ve had a long interest in underground system and It’s quite interesting to think that those who had designed this would never thought about its impact for the years to come. Let’s take a tour at the Underground System from Hungary, Budapest, a beautiful series by photographer Zsolt Hlinka and make sure to follow him on Instagram for more. Hope you will like it! The focus of this photo series is the symmetry created by geometric shapes and the relationship between them. With these photos the spaces are displayed in a new light, where their functionalities are completely de-emphasised and instead the composition takes the main role, where such tiny details are revealed which would otherwise be overlooked during everyday usage. Since these spaces do not fulfill their funcion - so they aren't filled with huge crowds, which they are intented to, and what we are used to see - a strange feeling of flawlessness is evoked, and turns the viewer into an eyewitness of intimate and rare moments. The function is changed not only for the spaces but also for the actors: as the observers of the picture, they don't need to travel anywhere further, and don't have to use the means of public transportation: they can finally take a look at the spaces and discover them - they can get lost in the details. Make sure to follow him on Instagram: @zsolt_hlinka.
Munich Underground System
Living in a city where there’s a big underground system, I’ve always been fascinated with everything around it. The neon lights, the tunnels and just the works. Also being getting more serious with my photography for its architecture, reflections and basically what was the idea/concept coming from the architect. I guess I’ll have to make time to travel the world and explore those underground systems. It’s a way of transportation and affordable even if you’re rich or poor which makes it even more interesting. Let’s take a closer look at the work from Nick Frank and the promo he worked on with Canon. Let’s follow Nick while he explored the underground system from Munich, Germany. Promo for Canon's G 7X II. More information: http://www.nickfrank.de.
Ground-1 Tokyo
I've always been fascinated by the nature of the underground installations, many elements come to mind about its architecture, light settings, subway, daylight regression and basically the whole atmosphere. A place where it got me even more fascinated was the underground life while I was in Tokyo, Japan. It feels like you're in a different World, you noticed a lot of people surfing on their mobile devices and sleeping (a LOT). Every angle tells a different story and feels straight like a movie scene. The work from Skander Khlif captures everything that I just said so well. It was a delight to explore this city and I can't wait to go back. Tokyo is the most fascinating and bizarre city in the world! One of the reasons is for sure the subway. About Skander Khlif Skander is a photographer based in Munich, Germany. He travels the World and capture the beauty from his lenses. He focuses this work into photography, photojournalism and digital photography. More information via Behance.
80s New York City Subway Photography
This week I finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point for the second time, and certainly not my last. It's a great book with super useful and engaging insights about how little things can have a huge impact. One of the examples Malcolm uses is how the criminality in New York City tipped in the 80s and what caused this fad to decay. The first thing done to eradicate this problem was to clean up the subway as it was dirty and rife with graffiti. This post was inspired by Gladwell's study. To illustrate, we are pleased to feature a few images from Bruce Davidson's book Subway. You can also play Final Fight to have the same feeling :) Bruce Davidson's groundbreaking Subway, first published by Aperture in 1986, has garnered critical acclaim both as a documentation of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City and for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin. In Davidson's own words, "the people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks and closed off from each other." In this third edition of what is now a classic of photographic literature, a sequence of 118 (including 25 previously unpublished) images transport the viewer through a landscape at times menacing, and at other times lyrical and soulful. The images present the full gamut of New Yorkers, from weary straphangers and languorous ladies in summer dresses to stalking predators and homeless. Davidson's accompanying text tells the story behind the images, clarifying his method and dramatizing his obsession with the subway, its rhythms and its particular madness. - Amazon Subway is Davidson's visceral take on the New York underground system of the 1980s complete with beleagured passengers, Guardian Angels, graffiti and a palpable, all-pervasive sense of fear. A glimpse of a New York that is already long gone. (Sean O'Hagan The Guardian 20111213)
Beautiful Underground Photography
Some people are afraid of being underground, but thankfully some photographers don't fit those shoes, and because of that, we are delivered with some great underground photography. Also, I tend to suspect that hipsters love it. These are some amazing examples of underground photography, man-made or not. Mostly tunnels, but also some natural scenarios, pretty awesome. These were taken by some great photographers, which will love if you paying them a visit (just gotta click each pic to go to their portfolios). I wonder, do your got your own underground photographs? Show us! I hope you enjoy these. Cheers. ;) roevin | Urban Capture Matt Pomfret LuisaLuisa Peter Silanov Apricot Cafe Ephraim Muller romaniashots QbiT White Rabbit AC21 Traceur Zeno Francesco Grillo Rodrigo Ono Sarah Louise dreamyourealive Kristen Elsby Björn C RNEP roevin | Urban Capture Nino H