SYLVANUS URBAN Sylvanus Urban - The Space Issue | Page 33

FUJI
Architecture is everywhere. A city’s skyline is
often defined by the iconic buildings and bridges that
call it home. However, despite their close proximity to
airports and public transit, these complex creations
struggle to travel.
To relocate such a structure without breaking
a sweat sounds more like made-for-TV illusion
performed by magician David Blaine than an act
that can be swiftly and successfully carried out by
aspiring shutterbug. An architectural photograph
in itself is a kind of magic. It translates a place, its
detail and its environment into two-dimensions
without losing depth, movement or personality.
Maybe you’ve never visited the Eiffel Tower, but you
sure as hell know what it looks like.
S y l v a n u s - Ur b a n . c o m
That’s why we reached out to photographer
Felix Mooneeram to discuss the rise of architecture
photography, finding symmetry and how to make the
distance between your subject and your audience
completely disappear.
I’m looking at a building. And it’s huuuuge. How
do you go about conveying the scale of a space?
This is one of the most important elements I
want to communicate when I photograph a space.
I like to feature people in my compositions not just
for scale, but also to help the viewer imagine what it
would be like to be that person in that space. I use a
variety of lenses from wide (10-24mm), to mid (my
trusty 35mm) to long (50-140mm) for those details
and geometric crops. I find this helps me get a good
coverage and tell the full and honest story of a space.
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