FRANK SCHASSE
City walk

Meanwhile, my approach to certain photo projects is influenced by Impressionist painting. Deliberately blurred photography is an artistic process, a particular form of expression that attempts to bring photography and painting closer together. Modern, digital camera techniques turn the camera into a brush or painting tool. Blurred, blurred and distorted photos convey a special atmosphere, they evoke feelings and moods just like impressionism. Impressionism is characterised by the atmospheric depiction of fleeting snapshots of a scene. With the project "City walk" I wanted to capture these fleeting snapshots in the city with my camera. For this purpose, the photos were partly taken while walking and/or with the ICM technique.

Author
"It is an illusion that photos are taken with a camera... they are taken with the eye, the heart and the head."
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Frank Schasse is an architect and has been involved in photography since his student days. Both disciplines stem from the same quest: the attempt to give form to space, light and perception in a way that goes beyond the purely visible.
For him, photography is far more than the capture of a moment. It is an act of seeing – and, at the same time, of realisation. It is only through conscious observation that the world begins to transform. What is seen detaches itself from its mere reality and becomes a new image in which memory, mood, emotion and imagination merge. This gives rise to a reality of its own, which allows us to glimpse not so much the object itself as its very essence.

Website
www.frankschasse.com

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@photography_frank_s

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