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Todd Halamka
Photo © Todd Halamka
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The Loop
The 234 square mile city of Chicago is organized on a strict east-west, north-south street grid system with its downtown namesake defined by its Loop Elevated train line. Once in spring and once in fall this street grid aligns with the setting sun, known as Chicagohenge.
This image captures the brief moment the sun sets within the man-made-mountain-range of skyscrapers, bathed in a cast of golden light scaling more than 5 miles in depth to the horizon, as the busy promenade of people, vehicles and trains engage with the evening ahead.
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entry description
This image explores inherent, yet often unnoticed aspects of an urban setting; its physical definition, understanding of scale, rhythm of transportation and movement of people; as an image-making process to capture a specific context and its defining aspects of time and place.The 234 square mile city of Chicago is organized on a strict east-west, north-south street grid system with its downtown namesake defined by its Loop Elevated train line. Once in spring and once in fall this street grid aligns with the setting sun, known as Chicagohenge.
This image captures the brief moment the sun sets within the man-made-mountain-range of skyscrapers, bathed in a cast of golden light scaling more than 5 miles in depth to the horizon, as the busy promenade of people, vehicles and trains engage with the evening ahead.
about the photographer
Todd is a self-taught, amateur photographer with interest in making images that explore urban and natural landscapes that railroads inhabit and the intersections in between, particularly those junctures where the two have met and altered one another offering image opportunities.back to gallery
