Surroundings

• Prize
• Photographer
  Adam Biernat, Poland

The series 'Surroundings' investigates not only architecture but also photography in its purest. In all of the photographs Mies van der Rohe’s ‘less is more’ tinkles. These pictures analyse basic relations between shapes and forms, light and shade. As light plays here a crucial role, this series tries to grasp the essence of photography. Architecture is observed from a distance and from a much closer view, in each case it is taken out of its context. There is a lot of mystery, not to say metaphysics in the s u r r o u n d i n g s.