Urban Photography: Exploring Cityscapes & Street Art

For their experimental visual project Stenop.es, Paris-based photographers Romain Alary and Antoine Levi are just using a primitive technique: The Camera Obscura, a pinhole camera… Two layers are merging while the landscapes takes place in the interior’s intimacy. The idea is as simple as it is ingenious. All they have to do to create such an pinhole camera apartment is to entirely darken a room (probably using some kind of transparency) and adding a tiny pinhole to one of the windows. The result is an upside-down projection of the real world taking place everywhere inside, creating that astonishing effect of merging the outside landscape with the indoor space. ...

After I watched this beautiful time lapse video, I agree to the people who said, that the Olympic Winter Games have chosen a nice city this year! Although Vancouver is the third largest metropolitan area in Canada and the different views of the video are really nice, it’s not comparable with the time-lapse city portraits of other cities, like Tokyo & Yokohama, London or Hongkong. Nevertheless I somehow like that time lapse. Perhaps it is because of the small streets… ...

Two days ago, I showed these fantastic urban time-lapse videos from Paris to you. Today I will present another city in time-lapse: Dubai! Dubai - as you maybe know - is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. The one million city is the urban crown jewel around the Persian Gulf. That fact is already shown by Philip Bloom’s Dubai time-lapse, which was filmed in Dubai over 5 days and nights. ...

Daniel Sebastian Schaub is a freelance artist and photographer, who is concerned with architecture of the post-war modernity. In the last years, he photographed hundreds of different buildings mainly in Hamburg and Berlin and creates in this way a fascinating documentation of post-war architecture! The title of his work “Transformationsfelder” could be translated with “Transformation-Fields”. It tries to recognize the building’s character and focuses not only on single architectural components but on the whole building. ...