Above the rooftops

Above the rooftops. 2013.

Seen from above, the city becomes a puzzle of rooftops, water tanks, stairwells and makeshift terraces. The first light of morning washes the concrete in a soft peach haze, taking some of the hardness out of the cramped geometry below. Tiny figures on the roofs go about their day, almost lost in the maze, and the whole scene sits somewhere between chaos and calm, intimate and anonymous at the same time.

24 mm • 1/1600 sec • f/1.8 • ISO 100