Daniel Freytag is a UK-based photographer whose evocative images are of scenes that are, more often than not, overlooked for their seeming banality. And yet it’s in locations and still life such as these that Daniel’s talent comes to the fore, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary through unique composition, colour and tone; his keenly observed images hinting at hidden narratives that endure well beyond the frame.
The city as a living space, and that with its related concept of urbanism as a social phenomenon that according to Louis Wirth describes the rationalised lifestyle of urban people in comparison to the provinciality of rural inhabitants, is among the great themes of contemporary photography. Barely uttered, the “magic word” creates in our minds large pictures in which develop the technological aesthetic of urban-building excesses in globalised mega-cities. What we often forget in this respect is a second dimension of urbanism, which embraces the coexistence of various types of people, each with their own identity, in a limited living space. With his SHOPHOUSES – 4 x 8 m Bangkok series of works, Nitsch focuses precisely on this dimension.
A Córeia do Sul não anda muito pelos jornais e, por isso mesmo, esse é um país que deve ser uma incógnita para muitos. O blog thankyouok.blogspot.com tenta mudar isso com posts fotográficos sobre o dia a dia no país.
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