One photo from the Penrith series.
Two photos from the Cockatoo Island series.
Three photos blended together in order to create an architectural abstract image.
Hotel
The Collingwood Hotel has been around since 1888. Its architecture is famous for it because of its English Tudor style and half-timbered. Even though it’s been around for that long, the Tudor style wasn’t added until the 1930s. Located in Liverpool, the hotel began looking like a Sydney Victorian two storey townhouse. My focus for this series are the lines and redness of the hotel, making the English Tudor style my subject matter.
Penrith
Penrith is one of the most well-known suburbs in NSW, Australia. It is known for its register of the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. My focus for this series is that each image has a pattern, or the colour of the sky can be seen or reflected.
Pattern of the blinds
Pattern of the fence
Pattern of the gate
Pattern of the gate
Pattern of the lines
Pattern of the barrier
Blue sky reflected
Blue sky with the building
Blue sky with the building
Blue sky with the house
Cockatoo Island
The Biennale of Sydney returns for the 20th time this year, and this year’s theme focuses on architecture. The annual creative arts festival has always been held at the Cockatoo Island, which is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. My focus for this series was to capture the architecture, pattern and colour of the buildings and houses at the site.
George Byrne
George Byrne is a photographic artist who moves to Los Angeles, USA in 2010 after he has been living in Sydney, Australia.His main subject matter is the urban landscape of the city. Byrne is influenced by several artists, naming Walker Evans, Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Richard Diebenkorn and Ed Ruscha. He is interested in the aesthetics of industry and ordinary urban spaces because of the entire new topographic photography moment. “The whole host of other modern California painters who were able to illustrate how certain combinations of form colour can have an amazing alchemy and death.” Through his photographic work, he is seeking to turn the most disposable architecture and landscape that he could find into seismic moments. “LA is just so spread out that the typical day here is usually at least a couple of hours driving around, so you just end up seeing a lot of the city.” He reckons composition in his images is very significant as they often feel like a little puzzle that needs to be solved. His series “Local Division” is sort of his way to look at the beauty and magic of the place he lives in, working out how and where he fit in, and a reminder to keep his eyes open. His photos are reflections of his interest in the city itself.
Source: GB 2016, George Byrne Artist – LOCAL DIVISION EPK, YouTube, retrieved August 2016
Source: GB 2014, George Byrne Sydney 2014, YouTube, retrieved August 2016
CCC Photography 2016 