honorable mention
Christopher Hope-Fitch Hope-Fitch united kingdom
title
Brutalism in Colour
The photographs are taken at night with long exposures at 100 iso to capture as much colour depth as possible. I then edit the images to extract the maximum amount of colour from them, I tend to shy away from the purposefully colourfully illuminated , instead exploiting the differing colour temperatures of the ambient lighting in cities. Because the lighting is coming from all manner of different angles, often including from within the buildings, the shadows and highlights are considerably different from overhead sunlight. This, coupled with the different colours from different angles, frequently allows me to make the most of features that may not look their best in daylight.
Ironically, for an approach that relies so much on modern technology, advances in lighting to more uniform led's are killing off a lot of opportunities for this project, though I hopefully have a while yet.
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entry description
This project was born out of a desire to show brutalist architecture in a new way, deliberately rebelling against the more traditional black and white images of it, but the longevity of the project (five years and counting) is down to the myriad of opportunities the method provides.The photographs are taken at night with long exposures at 100 iso to capture as much colour depth as possible. I then edit the images to extract the maximum amount of colour from them, I tend to shy away from the purposefully colourfully illuminated , instead exploiting the differing colour temperatures of the ambient lighting in cities. Because the lighting is coming from all manner of different angles, often including from within the buildings, the shadows and highlights are considerably different from overhead sunlight. This, coupled with the different colours from different angles, frequently allows me to make the most of features that may not look their best in daylight.
Ironically, for an approach that relies so much on modern technology, advances in lighting to more uniform led's are killing off a lot of opportunities for this project, though I hopefully have a while yet.
about the photographer
I’m a London based freelance photographer with over ten years experience having begun my career hand printing black and white then colour photographs at a leading Soho lab for almost a decade. My traditional training and strong interest in architecture continue to feed my work.back to gallery