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Photography series · Architecture

White Ribs

For
Architecture practice
Location
Munich, Germany
Scope
Photography · Prints
Published
White ribbed facade of a modern building at dusk
Photograph by Joel Ambass

A museum at dusk, its ribbed facade lit from inside and one person crossing the corner. The building was designed to be photographed at this hour; I only had to turn up.

The corner

Every facade has one corner where the lines meet. Stand there, wait for the lights to come on, and let somebody walk through.

The person walking through is not staged. I waited forty minutes for one who would cross the frame at the right height and did not stop to look at the building, and this one was on the phone.

Low angle view of a glass tower's angular facades against a pale sky
The tower the same practice built across the river, at noon, in the flat light they hate. Photograph by Fer Troulik.

The practice bought the frame with the person in it and the frame without, and hangs them side by side. I know which one visitors stand in front of.

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