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Hasselblad Owners’ Club 7/2010
Peter Golznig Members of the Hasselblad Owners’ Club have chosen a picture by Peter Golznig as Photo of the Month. Introducing the Austrian architecture photographer and his aesthetic world.
It was a walkout of the French railway workers that allowed Austrian photographer, Peter Golznig, to create a series of images of mysterious architecture. Thanks to the strike, he was able to take his Hasselblad Xpan I and photograph Lyon’s otherwise extremely busy Satolas train station. Despite being taken in the middle of the day, the pictures are reminiscent of a ghost town: The deserted platforms, the eerie lighting of the escalators, and a couple of business people seemingly lost in the gigantic, empty corridors (this double page). Hasselblad Owners’ Club members chose this motif by Peter Golznig as Photo of the Month. It is part of his “Architecture of Men” project. Born in the Austrian state of Carinthia in 1964, Golznig decided to become a photographer in 1986, 10 years after he was given his first camera by his father. In addition to architecture, the self-taught Golznig covers portraits, documentation and nature. In the mid-nineties he focused on wildlife pictures, traveling with his camera all the way to nature reserves in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Tschad (p. 22, bottom), Algeria (p. 23, center) and South Africa. He is currently working on a series of images that he has christened “Architecture of Elements”. The next project the travel-friendly photographer has in mind is titled “Reason and Result” – a documentation on the causes and effects of human dealings and actions. Vita: Born in Villach/Austria in 1964; self-taught; his contributions to the Central Sahara Image Bank are among his most important publications. www.hasselblad.com
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