Ben Thomas is a born A photographer and visual artist based in Adelaide, Australia, now living in Melbourne, he specializes in photographing urban landscapes. What is different from usual is that the cities photographed by Thomas are always brightly colored.
He gave His series of photographs, titled "Chroma", raises questions about how society defines the cities we live in by emphasizing color and distorting the boundaries between reality and abstraction
Thomas likes to play with perception. In his small urban work "Cityshrinker (Social Shrinker)", he used tilt-shift to flip New York and London upside down. In the "Chroma" series he explores the ultimate color effects.
"I want to break down cities / appreciate their colors, shapes and beauty from the womb / is a vector and flat summary."
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Thomas has so far visited Australia, China, the UK, France and Italy. He shot with a Canon 5D Mark III and a handful of lenses.
Every time he walked into a new city, everything in front of him seemed complicated and huge, so every time Thomas went to a new city, he often spent a lot of time looking at Google Street View to better understand him and himself. What do you want to shoot? Sometimes, he simply sets out without a plan.
When he recalled the cities he visited, he said: "Hong Kong and Shanghai are incredible and highly dense. and cities with very modern architecture, while Paris and London express a surprising and interesting mix of old and new. ”
“We live in a place that is sometimes overly complex and intimidating in a way, and I want to show the inherent beauty that exists when you start to break down these complex scenes down to the simplest components. . ”
Thomas has a constant theme, which is to create works around architecture and urban space, but I am willing to portray different The visual protagonist is in each different series.
"Cityshrinker" is about the expression of the tilt-shift lens, "Accession" uses the kaleidoscope technique, and "Chroma" I used color and light to create a flat .
