Downtown Geometry
26 1/2*32 3/4 inches, gelatin silver prints
25.8x13 inch, gelatin silver prints
22 1/2*30 inches, gelatin silver prints
8*10 inch gelatin silver print
Gelatin silver prints
26 3/4*34 1/2 inches, gelatin silver prints
17 1/8*26 inches, gelatin silver prints
Gelatin silver prints
18 ¼*30 ¼ inches, gelatin silver prints
Gelatin silver prints
Gelatin silver prints
45*15 ½ inches, gelatin silver prints
Downtown Geometry
Before diving completely into photography I worked for four years in finance. That is why going to the financial district was like going to a familiar place to me. I was attracted by the atmosphere of downtown. Eventually, I started to pay attention to buildings and their interiors. I appreciate buildings as someone else’s creations but also I started to see more than just a sky scrapper, a wall, a roof, a decoration element or scenes from everyday downtown life. I started to watch buildings as I watched people. Buildings own downtown on weekends, they live there and interact and I am looking for this interaction, for relationships between buildings, buildings and sky. In my photographs, you can find them in the form of overlappings, combinations of lines and shapes, the interaction of spaces. I started to abstract architecture and create my own shapes. It became a game to me to find these beautiful abstract scenes, to utilize this fascinating geometry and scale and create my own art and my own architecture, which happens actually afterward in the darkroom.
With these dimensional collages, I offer viewers to get lost in Downtown and throw their heads back.
All images © 2012-2020 Alena Kuzub. Please, contact me in case you would like to use any photograph