Photographer Nikola Olić poetizes Delhi's architecture
Published on Apr 07, 2024 04:53 PM IST
- These unstaged images of Delhi seek poetry and portraiture in modern, everyday architecture.
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The Supernova Spire complex in a tight layered arrangement with the surrounding area and its own graphical, geometric and color footprints.(Nikola Olić )
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At the magnificent Jantar Mantar Observatory, ancient bright red walls, steps and surfaces remind us of both the physical and metaphorical astronomical gravity of this New Delhi gem, and the pull it has towards this quaint city park and Connaught Place in general.(Nikola Olić )
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A ring of colonnaded Georgian-style buildings around Connaught Place offer horizontal splits, gentle curves and the joining of nature and built materials, offering a colorful and complex urban equilibrium.(Nikola Olić )
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The Lotus Temple viewed from the leisurely horizontal comforts of the nearly infinite and immaculate green lawns surrounding the temple and its many water gardens, providing an architectural match to the sprawling flora and fauna with its own concrete flower petals as its crown.(Nikola Olić )
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Symbolizing the bustling urban, business, financial and cultural vortex of New Delhi, Connaught Place attracts a variety of architectural statements, with their own industrial mesh, reflective facades and a myriad supporting structures.(Nikola Olić )
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Reimagining the continuation of objects that stood still and separate for centuries, photography provides a sustained gaze at the unintended and unclaimed visual spaces of seemingly disparate structures, offering a transient new view of Jantar Mantar.(Nikola Olić )
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Delhi's infinite visual architectural possibilities and mixed and complex intents can be examined, celebrated and liberated through diverse subjects that can be ambiguous, morphed, obstructed or partial, yet offering a visually coherent and stable space.(Nikola Olić )
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Central Park in Connaught Place offers infinite photographic possibilities with its circular shape and elevated centre, providing powerful and potent visual elements one can observe from various distances and elevations, and look for context and meaning in everything we see.(Nikola Olić )
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