Dwell presents a slideshow of Matthias Heiderich’s Berlin: a colorful interpretation of my hometown. Berlin is an ever-evolving urban phenomenon, a pot that’s constantly boiling. And even though it is supposedly widely known for just that, people tend to choose a rather narrow-minded approach when it comes to interpreting the city’s character. I believe this happens to a great part because of collective perception/memory that is inherent to big cities where everyone has been or has a friend who’s been. Heiderich’s vantage point is a very refreshing one, I find, because for one, the colors and patterns he chooses seem to break conventions of perception of Berlin (usually rough, grey, very concrete, very monumental) - or at least show them with a twist. Second reason I’m loving this is that his angles reveal that Heiderich did really just walk around and take photographs. He doesn’t climb up high to photograph wide-angle images at eye-level. Instead, his shots capture particular segments from a segmental angle, something that everyone who regularly carries a camera around just in case a beautiful motif crosses our way is familiar with. You’re always on the ground, the nice stuff is always high up - the sun’s reflection in high rise windows, the cast shadow of one building onto another.

Truly, truly well done.

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