This week’s exercise was all about contrast:

Take your camera [...] and go for a walk. Look for scenes in which you can put conceptual contrasts into the frame. Start easy. Wet and Dry. Big and Small. Rough and Smooth. Young and Old. Easy right? Now get a little more esoteric. See how far you can push this.

I was a little nervous about this assignment since it was less technical and easy to follow than last weeks assignment on getting pickier. Fortunately, I had Mayra helping me with this assignment. So we went out to an abandoned brick factory in Munich, which provided a perfect play ground … and I got my first contrast picture quite early. Below you see the view out of a run down house to a new built house. The longer I look at this picture the more contrasts I recognize: Old vs. new, broken vs. intact, inside vs. outside.

The next picture I took in the ‘living room’. This TV reminded me of the four years I went abstinent from the telly, but I digress. Technology contrasts here with entropy. However, it also fits quite well into the whole setting. Less contrast here, but I liked the picture too much to spare it here. I took some color out to give even more creepiness.

The first picture already had that inside vs. outside contrast. I repeated it by looking at the living room’s ‘ceiling’. The obvious contrast it inside vs. outside. But even stronger is that contrast between the run-down house and the relief coming from the clear blue sky, which has a quite soothing effect on me.

The last picture shows a teddy bear left on what appears to be an abandoned construction site. It’s quite a heart breaking scene. I wonder where my teddy bear is and what he’s been doing lately.