Angles of afternoon

Angles of afternoon. 2020.

This picture is really about how a city can fold into itself, one structure colliding with the next until it feels more like a collage than a streetscape. The rust coloured ramp, the tilted green glass and the pale hexagon dome all lean into each other, each one catching the afternoon light in a slightly different way. Soft shrubs anchor the bottom of the frame and keep the scene from becoming entirely hard edged, a small band of life pressed up against steel, concrete and glass. I was drawn to the way these surfaces share the same sun yet tell very different stories, turning a familiar civic space into a stack of planes, colours and shadows that could almost belong to an invented city.

70 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec, ISO 64