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Big Lights, Big City

Vallejo Nocturno 2013 - rooftop gardens

Wuxi Grand Theatre in Tai-Hu New City

Wuxi Grand Theatre by PES-Architects at Contemporist

Magda Biernat

Magda Biernat
From LPV Magazine:

Continental Bounce is a collection of photographs taken during Magda Biernat’s recent one year, around the world journey. Together with her husband Ian, she traveled across three continents, Africa, Asia and Oceania visiting a cross section of diverse cultures.

In this selection of photos, Biernat has found common patterns that emerge in the variety of textural landscapes through which they traveled. She explores beyond the famous icons in tourist brochures into the homes and lives of the people whom they met and were befriended by on their journey. What emerges is a quiet and often intimate reflection of the similarities of lives and landscape around the world.

Surface the night

Vallejo Nocturno 2012-In Mexico City

Sohei Nishino

Diorama Map
Rio de Janeiro March - June 2011

 

From Architizer Blog:

Drawing out mental maps of cities is nary a dull activity (first time I’ve used the word ‘nary’). Warped by what some would call an impaired sense of direction, my own scribbled maps have often dissolved into floating arrows and cartoonish landmarks peppered with unnecessary written details. These maps, drawn on the back of receipts and corners of take-out menus, knowingly brush up against a rich art historical tradition of attempting to understand and often systematize the world beyond our immediate line of sight. From Ptolemy and Mercator to Google Earth, maps have indisputably informed the way we perceive and interact with our surroundings.

Aware of the profound implications of cartography, Japanese artist Sohei Nishino has created a photographic series entitled Diorama Map, carrying out what seems to be Situationist-inspired artistic process, which goes as follows: the artist walks around a chosen city on foot and documents various locations on film. He then returns to the footage, extracting still images to collage into wonderfully complex mental maps that turn imprecise lines, misalignments and gaps into spaces for individual interpretation, resisting the colonizing forms of traditionally rendered geographies.

Composed of snapshots taken on foot and then hand-printed on contact sheets, Nishino’s collages are highly personal. Speaking to The Japan Times, the artist revealed how he has included as many as 10,000 photos from each city in a single Diorama Map, creating a recognizable image that is also embedded with countless visual anecdotes, such as images of British pounds inserted into the location where Nishino was pickpocketed in London along with photographs of whom he met and what he ate. To scan through the intricate details of Nishino’s large-scale Diorama Maps is to travel without traveling, to reinterpret and relive an individual experience of a city.

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Across the street from Jardin Botanico in Rio

Vallejo Nocturno 2012- detail from wall in Rio

Offerings for the Dumb

Vallejo Nocturno 2012- signs of life

"That morning we went to the Jardin Botanico and walked slowly through the paths, encountering strangers, looking at the symmetry, forgeting the flight we would have to take later that day and the trip through the two oppresive tunnels"

In Brasil

Vallejo Nocturno 2012- Jardin Botanico #1

Ipanema at Sunset

Vallejo Nocturno 2012- Sunday Night in Ipanema

Promesas

Vallejo Nocturno 2012- In Charlottesville, at an antique shop-Mexican promesas