Brutalism

Nick Rochowski is an English photographer from London who focuses on personal projects, still life and architecture and interior commissions. He photographs brutalist buildings with hard edges because these are the defining features of the building. His pictures connote a lack of empathy and desolation. In his pictures he uses leading lines to show the hard edges created by the concrete. Most of his pictures are taken from low angles which connote the feeling of inferior we feel towards them.

The above picture connote the working class culture and the bleakness of the working class estate. This relates to the time the culture evolved between the 1950’s and the 1970’s. I will recreate this image by photographing the park hill flats which have now been upgraded so although they are brutalist they also use colour. This will make my work in the style of Rochowski’s butt will make it original.

Simon Phipps is a photographer who lives in London. He works in the style of brutalism as well as modernism and still life. He only works in black and white to represent the darkness and personify the buildings to make them seem sad, this is seen in one of his photographers below. Simon Phipps’ photography is a lot sharper than Nick Rochowski’s with most of his pictures featuring sharp, harsh edges. In an interview, Simon stated that his photographic concerns link to the preset post 1945 modernist British Architecture that fits into the idea of social class and the social contract. His picture below focuses on leading lines and viewpoint with his picture being taken from a low angle represent the buildings height and the meaning
behind it.