Category: Photography

Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, photographer Natalie Christensen worked more than 25 years as a psychotherapist, which informed her minimalist and contemporary work.

Influenced by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, her pictures are characterized by the use of shadows and dream symbols as favoured subjects. Christensen always looks for psychological metaphors in commonplace architecture and streetscapes, searching for new themes in shopping centers, apartment complexes, and office parks. By dismantling these scenes to color fields, geometry and shadow, the photographer sees the metaphorical hiding in plain sight. The places are outside the carefully cultivated ideal of this city, the locations may even be viewed as ugly or plain at first glance. During her work as a psychotherapist, Christensen found that people often didn’t see their own value, instead of only focusing on their deficits. Her photography is an extension of that work.

After years of renovation, the historic site of the National Library of France reopens its doors to the book lovers and those who appreciate lavish interiors.

The architects made an excessive research to gather as much information as possible.
Located at Rue de Richelieu in Paris, the historic complex has been being renovated since 2011, when it was decided that it’s no longer suitable for the need of 21st century’s users. The works were split into two phases, with the second one to be completed in 2020. The library’s central book reserve was built in 1868. Several modifications were made later in the 1930s and 1950s, including two underground levels and five upper floors. Some of them, such as elevators, cladding, and unsightly drop ceilings, were unfortunate enough to be removed by the architect Bruno Gaudin. While Gaudin’s company was responsible for the general management of the restoration project, the renovation of the main reading room, ‘salle labrouste’, was given to Jean-François Lagneau, a specialist in historic objects. While the architects made an excessive research to gather as much information as possible, they also considered the ‘flow’ of the building, managing to complete the impressive history of the place with its modern additions.

“I am searching for equivalents to the inner experience from the visible reality,” says Anni Leppälä, Finnish photographer whose works are filled with associations, interpretations and convey the viewer’s own experience.

“I am interested in how the images connect with each other.”
Interested in how an image emerges from the visible and how it transforms its subjects in that process, Leppälä creates non-linear narratives that can proceed to various directions. Her works are usually made in an ongoing process, in which the photographer constantly adds new pieces and connects them with the already existing works. “I am interested in how the images connect with each other and how those different connections bring up new associations and thoughts,” Leppälä says. Simultaneously showing the subject and hiding it, the artist references to the inner experience, searching for the ‘invisible’ aspect of an image. She adds: “What can be recognised and found through the material visible surface. I try to approach those recognisable elements and experiences through my images.”

“Home isn’t something we can expect from a place, but something we find in ourselves.” The second journey that Lufthansa #inspiredby HEIMWEH takes us on, “The Colors of Home”, followers Nepalese jewellery designer Arpana Rayamajhi from her adopted city of New York to her native land of Nepal, in search of the meaning of home.

In the film, Lufthansa accompanies Rayamajhi from New York back to her hometown of Kathmandu, where the designer searches for her creative and personal identity. Having experienced a childhood influenced by strong Nepalese women, Rayamajhi finds herself navigating a city that is at once familiar and distant. In between this tension, she must learn to reconnect with her roots, be inspired by different versions of creativity, and experience a new feeling of what it means to be home.

Beginning in Kathmandu, Lufthansa’s voyage transports the viewer through the journey of color, sound and vibrancy of the capital, as well as the city of Pokhara and its regional provinces. Sweeping views of the Himalayas alternate with vast cityscapes, showcasing the vast diversity of both the country and  Rayamajhi’s inner journey.

All images © Neulandherzer
– In collaboration with Lufthansa –

Made for a pilot and his family, the house by Iroje KHM Architects carries a metaphor of the airplane’s flight while incorporating Korea’s architectural tradition.

The house, located in a new developing area near the Incheon airport in Seoul, Korea, was designed to reflect its owner lifestyle and daily activities. That said, the dynamic construction of the house with its roof elements reminiscent of frozen wings symbolizes the act of flying. In addition to its absolutely unique design (though characteristic for the architects), the house features several references to traditional Korean architectural elements, such as yard, garden and rumaru pavilion. However, in this project they are transformed into contemporary housing program which applies to the house’s main outside space. It doesn’t only allows the house to be in harmony with the surrounding nature, but also forms a landscape hill.

Born in Romania, the self taught photographer Ana Topoleanu relocated to Mexico six years ago and has been pursuing her love for shooting analog photographs in the exotic setting of South America ever since.

One warm winter she decided to leave the city and visit her friend Priscila on her land hidden in the tropical forest on the coast of Cabo Corrientes. Capturing the beauty of nature she focuses on the relationship between her friends and the wilderness, resulting in beautiful images which take us back to the roots…

“We never left this place except for taking a shower and buying natural water and fruits.”“One day we decided to find a secret beach, one that was only for us. We got together in a busy intersection and started driving without really knowing where the road took us. The villages started to be smaller, the vilas became farms with horses and cows, the nature started to eat up from the highway. And then the road was barely visible because of the crazy palm trees throwing their huge leaves over it. We got down the car, we walked through some tangled forest and got to this rocky beach with black sand. We never left this place except for taking a shower and buying natural water and fruits. We spent all day naked playing like children, bathing by day and watching the fire by night.”