photography course

summer excursion 2012

department of pictorial design

daniel pehl

excursion 1 - Duisburg Nord Landscape Park

duisburg, germany

excursion 2 - freight railway station Moontse

Moontse, Belgium

excursion 3 - jugendpark cologne

cologne, germany

the topic of our first field trip to Duis-

burg was the documentation of the struc-

tural and temporal changes of a former

industrial used area.

my intention is this work was to capture

the confrontation and co-existence bet-

ween man made industrial elements and

structures of nature.

where men once displaced the area with industrial

structures...nature retrieves its space

high steel giants rise high into

the air...

the complexity and dimension of

blast furnace is breathtaking

and frightening at the same time

the freight depot in Moontse, belgium was

once used as an industrial used railway

connection between germany and belgium.

since its decommissioning the train stati-

on has developed to a lost space with a

frightened scenery.

i wanted to catch the atmosphere in my

photos and tried to involve light and

shadow to express the area‘s frightening

emptyness and spectacular abandonment.

the main goal of or last excursion was to

focus on geometrical and pictoral compo-

sition in photography. I wanted to capture

geometrical connections of different ele-

ments to create well composed and atmo-

spheric pictures.

daniel pehl-summer semester 2012