Industrial architecture

This is the competition winning photograph due it strength and clarity of composition. I love the minimal-ness of this photograph, just simple grey and white tones and strong geometries from the buildings facade. It really reminds me of photographs by Walker Evans, and photographic modernism in general. It is a very timeless photograph, it could easily be an archival museum image. The photographers choice to shoot in black and white is correct, and emphasises the geometry of the architecture. A good example of less is more!

I'm a big fan of this building so I was happy to see this competition entry. The photographers choice to shoot in black and white is interesting, an obvious reference to early photographic Modernism, particularly the work of Albert Renger-Patzsch. A photograph like this would have been a disaster if any of the vertical lines were not straight, but here the photographer is spot on! It almost looks like it was shot with a large format camera. Wonderful.

The crispness and colour palette of this photograph is simply exquisite. I assume its shot from a drone. ( how else could it have been achieved?) But the photographer has a strong sense of composition as all of the lines are completely straight and parallel. Any shift off completely straight lines would have ruined the power of the photograph. Also the compostional weight of the photograph is very strong, a small area of sea on the right, balanced by the tiny shipping containers; a very sophisticated photograph.

This is another perfect example of photographic minimalism. I love that all of the lines are totally straight. Did the photographer straighten them in post production, I wonder? The subject matter is very reminiscent of Lewis Baltz and the New Topographics movement in photography in 1970s. It has a very unreal quality to it, this isn't a negative just more that its almost beyond photographic - more like a screenprint. It also reminds me of the iconic Rhine photograph by Andreas Gursky, which quite a compliment. A wonderful strong and simple photograph.

I really love this photograph of the brick chimneys in Stoke, the absolute epitomy of industrial architecture. The shapes of the chimneys is so elegant and the photographs composition has captured them perfectly. I also love the minimalness of this photograph, its just bricks! My only slight reservation with the photograph is the bright blue sky, as it seems somewhat unreal. This is not to suggest that industrial architecture needs to be photographed in gloomy, grey light, just that this image is just a bit too colourful. But then its perfect composition perhaps balances this out.

I was really drawn to this photograph but on closer examination was slightly dissapointed by the digital noise. The photographers awareness of line and composition is strong and also the use of a shallow depth of field in the background works well. But the visible noise (too high an iso?) in the photograph lets it down. This image could easily be improved by the use of a slow iso/asa and a tripod.