Urban Minimalism

I dug these out of the archives. These are a selection of photos that were submitted as my AP Photography focus back in 2016.

My goal was strip the chaotic urban environments we spend so much time in down to some bare essentials: shape, color, form, light in order to create something more from less.

Multiple Cities · 2015-2016 · Digital Only

Black-and-white triangular rooftop peak of a building against a sky with a vertical streak of cloud.

For most of the series I focused on exteriors, but some interior still life added some breadth to the photo set.

Silhouetted lamp, glass jar, and bottles arranged on a windowsill against frosted window panes at dusk.

The sunlit mustard-yellow corner of a building with rows of windows angles into a clear blue sky. — Taken in Charleston, South Carolina

Black-and-white gabled rooftops of a building meet a hazy sky, with a crescent moon visible above.

Black-and-white circular vignette framing the diagonal striped facade of a building against open sky.

A seagull flies past the sharp glass corner of a blue-paneled building against a pale sky. — Even Stamford, CT offered creative opportunities.

Black-and-white close-up of two angled steel beams meeting a vertical column against a pale sky.

Black-and-white shot of a bird flying near the diagonal concrete edge of a building against a dark sky.

A person sits in deep shadow at the base of a concrete wall beside a brightly lit open doorway.

Urban Minimalism

( 10 photos )

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