FRANK SCHASSE
Oceanarium on the Baltic Sea

The photo series was taken on the Baltic Sea in Stralsund, Germany. The gleaming white oceanarium stands out from the brick-coloured warehouse buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries in the neighbourhood. The museum building is a reinforced concrete and steel composite construction with partially coloured exposed concrete surfaces. Its outer shell in the form of curved bands consists of white-coated steel plates, as used in shipbuilding. They are intended to symbolise sails blown by the wind and summarise the various functions of the building complex. This consists of four structures on four levels, which are assigned to the themes of the exhibition concept: a building with a restaurant and exhibition rooms, the Baltic Sea aquarium, the North Sea aquarium ‘Open Atlantic’ with a 2.6 million litre tank and the exhibition hall ‘Giants of the Seas’.

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.

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www.frankschasse.com

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