WINNERS

Concrete Curves and Fields of Color

  • Photographer
    Kenan Ali, United States
  • Prize
    Silver Winner in Architecture/Buildings

I don't photograph Niemeyer's architecture as buildings, I see flat color planes and geometric abstraction. Through a Yashica TLR's square viewfinder, three dimensions collapse into pure form: red diagonals cutting blue, yellow rectangles floating in white void. Shot on Kodak Portra, the film compresses depth and softens edges. Concrete reads as painted surface. Grain mimics brushstrokes. What remains after stripping away narrative? Color relationships generating emotional resonance. Geometric tension. The visual language Rothko created.