Untitled #152

This photograph is part of an ongoing master series of black-and-white macro photographs of plant elements, named "Untitled". All photographs in the series, are taken in nature. The subject are small, inconsequential and often not noticed or seen, but unique and precious. The series is abstract in that there is a departure from reality. The black-and-white, the macro lens, the emphasis on symmetry and on composition: these have the power to distill certain aspects of the subjects. Although the medium is photography, I think of my work as sculpture. There is an emphasis on the architecture, form and texture of the subjects. The photographic process consists in chiseling away at reality. I remove color, context… I frame, determine a plane of focus and define details. I work until I give my feelings form. In doing so I aim to expose what I feel is the essence of my subject.

Anna Agoston, American, British, French, New Zealander, born Levallois-Perret, France, 1971 An architect certified by the French government, Agoston is a graduate of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where she earned the Master in Architecture II degree (MArch II). Her career as an artist began in October, 2013, when she made the first photograph in her "A romantic typology of form", an ongoing master series of 450. In 2016, she started organizing her photographs in unique installations of two to fifty-four photographs to thematize what it means to be female.