Homage-Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky (born January 15, 1955) is a German photographer known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. His photos often are commenting on the unsettling nature of globalisation. The repetitive nature of his images is very apparent and for me I really wanted to try express this in my own way using Gursky’s symmetry and patterns. He often digitally manipulates his images to add extra details.

Andreas Gursky

This is a really strong powerful image by Gursky, Its use of scale and detail keeps the viewer constantly entertained. The picture shows the business of society depicting a railway station platforms. This image is digitally manipulated to be more symmetrical and most of the parts of this image have been stitched together and I feel this really works. 

My Homage Image

This is my homage image for Gursky, this image is taken in the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany. I feel this ties in with Gursky's work because of the use of lines and symmetry, I also digitally manipulated my image to have allot more people in it, because the original image had barely any in. I feel that adding people to make the image more busy was a good thing and tied in with some of Gursky's work. In the end I am happy with how this image turned out and although it is not a direct copy of Gursky's style it still pays homage to him.