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 passionate about photography since his student days.
He uses photography as a means of expressing his creativity. Seeing plays a crucial role for him. The transformation of what he sees into a new image, into which moods, feelings and imagination flow. A truly fascinating process.
In addition to traditional colour and black-and-white photography, he has long been fascinated by the potential for abstraction in photography. Making the invisible visible holds great appeal for him.

Website
www.frankschasse.com

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