Köln am Rhein

Four things I thought when visiting the 4th largest town of Germany: cold, religious, urban, patterns… The photographs I took are reflecting the way I felt about this town while being there on my first business trip this week…

Elektrické podniky hl. m. Prahy

The Functionalist masterpiece of Elektrické podniky (Electric Companies) from 1935 located in Prague’s quarter of Bubny hosted this year’s Designblok 2010, the annual week-long design show exhibiting the newest and best of the Czech design.

Especially the contrast of the young, hip and edgy contemporary design versus the classic cold materials and clean-cut shapes of the building itself created a nice paralell with the exhibit’s design conception.

However, I was more attracted by the raw and semi-ruined settings of the main cash desk downstairs and its surroundings, in which the workers of Electric Companies had been anxiously queuing up for their paychecks every month. On the contrary to the polished and colourful designs presented upstairs, these settings offered a different perspective. One somehow more real in its sadness, a bit mysterious, abandoned, long forgotten and left behind…

This is just a small taste of photos I shot in this building, more photos including the whole design show will come very soon!

It’s raining…

Smetanova Litomyšl

Prague thru a Quirky Lens

The Prague Kaleidoscope of Colours

I’m sitting by the window looking at Prague through the kaleidoscope of colours… Not one single view looks the same, not one single angle is giving me the same perspective… I’m trying to see what our predecessors saw while looking at the reflection of  this beautiful town through the vitrages of the Powder Gate… It’s like it was almost unreal, yet it creates a different perpective, a whole new parallel world to the one we seem to perceive every day… Our view of the reality is limited… I propose that everybody starts trying to see things differently, with a hint of subjectivity and imagination… I promise the outcome will be worth it!

The Czech Pre-Electoral Allegory

February in Troja: Snowy Landscape & Other Winter Peculiarities

Paris Selects

Snow Study: The Minimalism

Do you know this feeling when something so simple just as snow for instance influences you so much you instantly start taking pictures of it to see what it would look like on a photo? Well, exactly the same thing happened to me today… Influenced not only by presence of the snow but also by the weather forecast annoucing Prague has gotten the most snow in the last 17 years (!), I took my camera and went outside to take some pictures. Turned out I took more than I planned to (as usual) and some of them actually came out pretty well (also as usual)!

I am dividing this photo essay in a couple of segments again so that you can get a better look on the key motifs of the pictures alone…