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Variations On a Dark City by Espen Dietrichson
The buildings of Lyon are pulled apart in these impossible photographs by Norwegian artist Espen Dietrichson.
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The series is entitled Variations On a Dark City and forms part of the artist's One of Many Unusual Moments exhibition on show at the Galerie Roger Tator in Lyon.
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For each image the walls and roof of a building are moved apart into the sky, just like the exploded axonometric diagrams drafted by architects.
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"The series of modified or levitated architecture started as my first interest when I went to art academy," Dietrichson told Dezeen.
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Above: exhibition view is by David Desaleux
Explaining his technique, he said: "The photos are made half manually and half digitally. The technical drawing of the explosion is hand-drawn on paper, and after the first cut and paste almost all of the end-process is digital, before the silkscreening."
Other manipulated photography on Dezeen includes a tower block that looks like it's being unzipped and landscapes that are distorted into circles.
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