Three more amazing photos by Sven Fennema.

For more information about Sven, see our earlier post: Deserted Buildings – I and Sven’s homepage boundlessmind.net

Photos by Sven Fennema.

The ambitious photo artist Sven Fennema was born in Xanten 1981 and is living in Krefeld near Düsseldorf today where he also works in his day job in the information technology.

After some experiences in digital processing and his first photographic steps in 2007 he actuated his photographic activities more passionate and developed his own photographic style rapidly in the following year. Sven learned his photographic and post processing skills always completely self-educated which are also under continuous development. This brings also the advantage that he never became seduced to just copy a style but always could evolve himself freely and creative.

Since the interest in abandoned places attends him already for many years it was definite that they became his first favourite motifs. But at the same time his second favoured domain motifs, the modern architecture evolved.
Is it primarily the atmosphere and the stories behind what catches him with the decayed motifs of abandoned places it is different with the modern motifs. In that case it is more the art of seeing a place or building in different eyes, to use them as tools to create completely new, own and individual sights.

Since a long time now the creative photo art is an important and elementary part in his life.
Sven’s pictures are stamped by extraordinary compositions with atmosphere, special light and mood but also by the play of light and forms. Himself he describes them as just “alive”.

While photographing he invests a lot of time, first he let the place affect on him for some time, he feels and collects its mood and history.

Sven thinks about it for a while and that is the way the picture he want to express later slowly evolves in his head.
Especially his decay related motifs are filled up with stories he wants to tell, good as well as bad ones. They are going to be told while watching the picture, always a little different depending on the viewer.

Sometimes Sven feels embraced to abrogate rules and reality and works beside existent ideals. For example his works use blooming or extraordinary camera positions as stylistic devices. This is also the reason he came to the working title of his website boundless mind. He does not want to have his fantasy and ideas controlled by rules, reality and limitations.

Sources: portfolio.artlimited.net, boundlessmind.net, 2photo.ru

Photo from the series “The Transparent City” by Michael Wolf.

In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, in collaboration with the U.S. Equities Realty artist-in-residence program, invited Michael Wolf to photograph the Chicago cityscape. Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.

See more at Michael Wolf’s website: www.photomichaelwolf.com

An Office Building from the series “Transparent City” by Michael Wolf.

This is Wolf’s first body of work to address an American city. Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surrounding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life, digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses: Edward Hopper meets Blade Runner.

See more on Michael Wolf’s website: www.photomichaelwolf.com