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String curtains lead visitors from one exhibition hall to the next inside Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum for Ethnology, Cologne.
Upper Lapidarium, Ljubljana castle
1986 - 2012, Ambient architects (Miha Kerin, Marija Magdalena Kregar et al.)
"The Ljubljana Castle lapidarium is a part of a new subterranean public connecting space of the castle complex, which gradually came into being in the course of the renovation. It enriches the programmes and historical testimony of the castle.
Building anti-seismic foundations for the cracked courtyard facing sections with Corten steel supporting pillars set on the rocky ground, the simultaneous removing of the rubble inside the ramparts (dating back to when the courtyard sections were constructed), and the archaeological investigations and finds related to the earlier periods of the smaller Spanheim castle, brought about the idea of presenting and putting to use this new, interesting space.
A space was created for presenting well-preserved, undamaged, buried inner structures of the rampart as well as the archaeological remains of the castle’s earlier stages. The area is adapted to the bedrock terrain and its varying levels as well as the shapes of the sections above it. This is how a picturesque, cohesive, multi-purpose subterranean space around the central service area was created. The service area is sunken into the archaeologically sterile terrain and allows for covered access to most castle sections. It is also connected to the funicular, providing access to the castle from Krekov Square."
There are subjects that have been photographed thousands of times.
For me, the point is not to show once more what a place looks like,
but how it feels when I connect it with my own imagination.
Stuttgart City Library is a strong piece of architecture,
but in a purely documentary image it becomes interchangeable for me.
It’s the kind of picture you look at for a moment and forget the next day.
For the wall, I am looking for something else:
an interpretation that still inspires years later.
So this is not a classic documentary photograph.
I take the idea of the architecture and push it further –
into a calmer, clearer, futuristic version that still remains believable.
A smartphone could document this space perfectly well.
So why do we walk in with high-end cameras and lenses
only to produce yet another “correct” documentation?
I deliberately photograph in a way that turns a real location into a personal world.
Many architectural images are clean and technically correct – and still interchangeable.
One has a bit more sharpness, another a bit less noise,
but in the end it’s essentially the same picture.
You recognize the building, but not the person, the photographer, the artist behind it.
That’s where such images lose their impact, especially if you want to live with them on your wall.
Do we really want to contribute the ten-thousandth version of the same scene?
Creating your own visual worlds is much more demanding.
There is no template, nothing to copy, no guaranteed formula.
All you have is your inner idea of the place, and everything has to build around that:
colors that work together, light that carries a certain mood,
and the question of what this image is supposed to express.
That’s also why such a style is hard to imitate –
there is no preset for it, only the artist’s handwriting.
It took me a long time to understand this.
For many years I held back my own signature because I thought
photography had to be “correct” first and foremost.
But that way of working makes many images age quickly.
Photography becomes truly interesting when you dare to think a subject further –
not just to document, but to interpret.
That is what interests me today:
revealing the potential of a place, not just its surface.
If this image encourages other photographers to repeat less
and show more of their own signature, it has done its job.
There are far more possibilities than “natural colors” or “black and white”.
Once you allow your inner version of a subject to flow into the picture,
you start creating images you genuinely want to keep for a long time.
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And if you notice a man from the future
in the glass door at the top —
don’t worry, that’s me. 😉
(At 100% zoom: unmistakably the Running Man.)
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Technical details
📷 Camera: Sony Alpha 7R V
🔭 Lens: Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM
📍 Handheld – tripods are not allowed at this location
🔍 Focal Length: 14 mm
🌞 Aperture: f/5.6
🌙 ISO: Auto
⏳ Exposure Bracketing (HDR-RAW): 5-frame series with 2.0 EV steps per image
📍 Location: Stuttgart City Library, Germany
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