Natural by Manuel Alvarez Diestro
يكشنبه, ۱۲ تیر ۱۳۹۰، ۱۲:۰۰ ق.ظ
عکس های جالب و البته گاهی رویایی ای گرفته از تقابل میان طبیعت و جهان صنعتی این جناب دیسترو!
عکس ها، عکس های خاصی نیستند و البته گاهی حتی نماهای خاصی هم انتخاب نشده، اما این مجموعه در کنار هم، یه نگاه خوب رو با تاثیر عالی داره بیان می کنه....
Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has sent us these photographs documenting growing high-rise cities in Asia.
Above and top: Busan, South Korea
The Natural series illustrates high-rise buildings situated on city peripheries in China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.
Above: Busan, South Korea
Each photograph depicts the contrasts between the large scale urban developments and the surrounding landscapes.
Above: Busan, South Korea
Above: Busan, South Korea
Below is some more text explanation from the photographer:
As a visual artist using photography as medium to challenge our appreciation of cities could not resist to the possibility of documenting my perspective of the Asian Metropolis nowadays.
Above: Hiroshima, Japan
In the peripheries of Bejing, Busan, Hiroshima, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Fukuoka, Seoul or Chongqing I discovered the multiple relations of the growing mega city and its surroundings. Somehow, I witnessed the confrontation between nature and the imposing satellite towns.
Above: Hong Kong
In these dehumanized landscapes I pretended to unveil the beauty that unfolds in the city limits of Asia’s new towns.
Above: Hong Kong
At the end, as I did with other photographic works I wished to portray the current changes in the world’s metropolis.
Above: Hong Kong
I truly believe that cities transform with the passage of time same as human beings.
Above: Hong Kong
The more aware we are of these changes and the fragil environments that they generate the more we will be capable of understanding ourselves.
Above: Hong Kong
While living in Cairo, Egypt I decided to travel to those Asian cities with a large amount of city developments and potentially vertical.
Above: Chongqing, China
My eyes were too accommodated in the horizontal new towns in the desert.
Above: Chongqing, China
I needed to challenge myself and search for new towns with a heavy concentration of structures in the city outskirts.
Above: Chongqing, China
At a first stage I selected Chongqing, Beijing, and Hong Kong. In a second trip I have traveled to South Korea, followed by Japan and later Thailand, and Malaysia. Previously I photographed other cities such as Manila, Macau, or Taipei.
Above: Chongqing, China
All the images were captured in an unplanned way and under the effects of the jet lag. I normally walked for hours in the margins where the metropolis meets the wilderness.
Above: Chongqing, China
Once in Hong Kong I even walked from the airport to the city and experienced the suburbs at a first hand. My strategy was to take any form of public transportation which would take me to the last station. From there, I got lost with the camera in purpose with no map or GPS. For the coming days I would cover the rest of the stations until I covered the city perimeter.
Above: Chongqing, China
This series of photographs that I entitled “Natural” are a product of pure enjoyment and unpredictable visual challenge.
Above: Chongqing, China