Andreas Gursky, german photographer known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view.
Very, very colourful, very busy, almost wallpaper like, repetitive patterns seem to appear a lot. Technical in a way, symmetry and line seems to play a big role in his work, abstract. I like.


 

99 cent, 1999

This photograph is very contemporary, I feel a message of mass production, hypnotized by materialistic world, money is happiness sort of thing going on, with colourful packaging attracting attention, getting people to spend, spend spend. This on a large scale must be powerful. 





This one reminds me of Bridget Riley's paintings, feels like a hard edged piece filled with coloured boxes.  Again, very repetitive initiative, symmetrical. This one makes me feel like everyone is so small in the big world we live in, we all get put into these coloured boxes and don't get noticed in the general public as everyone lives their own life and doesn't look around. Looking at this block of flats, there are so many families living in there, all with a different story, all wanting more than the four walls they live in. Taken on a wide lens?









This one makes me feel calm, it feels like the nirvana we all try to accomplish. Repetitive, feels like a panorama due to the curved middle section of the photograph. 


All these photographs seem to be very subjective, ones that make you think a little deeper...