Structure Photography

• Photographer
  Nikola Olic, United States
• Studio
  Structure Photography

Abstract structural photography affords conceptual excursions and
playful imagining of what massive solid immovable city structures
might represent, both in a real urban sense and a personal
experimental one, drawing us closer to the cities we explore by
assigning these structures a purpose and meaning that reflects us, our
stories, and our histories.

Every photograph in our collection comes with a story -- literally.
Eleven lines of commentary about the structure being photographed,
its name, and the nickname seen in it through the viewfinder. Around
the story -- again literally -- is a map showing the city, the street
intersection, and which way the camera was pointing.

These spatial reference points offer a quick return to the real world in
which the structure exists, of cars, noise, buildings, people and interim
visual possibilities, and are intended as a demystifying tool, reminding
us that these structures, beautiful or otherwise, are among us on
every corner, in cities we visit or cities where we live.

This transience, this photographic opportunity, can be suspended by a
camera shutter for a fraction of a second, and transformed
permanently both into what we see in the structure, and whatever at
that street intersection and in that city and on that day we find in
ourselves.

Awards Galleries: MADI Museum - Dallas, TX Uptown Downtown Gallery - Rockwall, TX Peter Miller Fine Art Gallery - Providence, RI Black Box Gallery - Portland, OR 2014 Dallas Fashion & Art Show Press: ArchDaily.com Gizmodo.com Dwell.com The Houston Chronicle Newspaper XXI Architecture Magazine (Turkey) Bartlett Lobby (UK) Creative Boom (UK) The Maker (Israel) Dallas Fashion & Art Show B92.net (Serbia)