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Russian production studio creates dramatic photo manipulations of local city centers

2019-06-14T15:56:00-04:00

Architecture is often subject to photo manipulation, especially as it has been made easier through increasingly sophisticated imaging software. The most recent set of examples that we have come across are the creations of Russian production studio Lestnica.

Headed by Artem Prudentov, the photographs are of Russian cities from imagined perspectives with dizzying realism. Most of the photographs in the series have a single, unaltered architectural focus which greatly contrasts the elastic world around it. Each image the product of several hours of labor and made up of several photographs, but the high quality of the final products make the process more than worth the effort.

Lestnica adopted a style of photo manipulation akin to that of previously featured Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş.

Bogota from the Roofs, Streets and Sky by Camilo Mønón Navas

2018-01-26T13:56:00-05:00

To me, everything looks fascinating from the air. But, for some reason, I never expected Bogotá, Colombia, to look so striking.

Colombian artist, Camilo Mønón Navas has produced a series of images titled, Arial Façades, in which Camilo takes various perspectival photographs and assembles them whimsical and fantastical means while bringing his home city of Bogota to the surface through all its cultural glory.

In Camilo's words. "Those buildings, spaces, or architectural complexes that are part of our city and that show us through a drone the incredible details that our city hides from the air...by exploring from the terrace of my apartment–a 10-story building–the structures of the cities from the zenith views.”

Artist creates real-life "Inception" style photography

2016-01-28T18:33:00-05:00

Turkish artist Aydın Büyüktaş has created warped, three dimensional photographic portraits of various cities, buildings, and landscapes around the world that bring to mind both the trippy dreamscapes of "Inception" and the curved future dwellings in "Interstellar." According to his Facebook page, the works are "inspired by Edwin Abbott's book 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.'" Here's a sampling:

His "Parallel Universes 2" series, meanwhile, seemingly mirrors and transports its largely architectural subjects: