Gion

Stephanie Jung
Gion

Multiple Exposure Photograph

16 x 20 inches

2010

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Stephanie Jung is a freelance photographer based in Berlin, Germany. In 2010 she finished her studies in Visual Communications, where she discovered her passion for experimental photography. Since 2012 she is working as a freelance photographer, focussing on fine art and portrait photography. She loves to travel all over the world, especially to big cities, to capture the vibrant and hectic mood of a place. But her work is not just about citylife, it's about time and caducity, about capturing special moments getting lost in time. Some of her work has been published in different magazines as well as exhibited in art galleries.

(http://portfolio122826.format.com/about)

One of the most beautiful little areas of Japan: Gion in Kyoto, the Geisha district. I felt like I was set back in time, at night it was especially beautiful. The lights were amazing and created this beautiful mood. I chose to give this scene a more abstract view. As the light and mood speak for themselves, you don’t need to see every detail. 

(http://www.cooph.com/magazine/features/techniques/detail/article/profolio-the-textured-moments-of-stephanie-jung.html)

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This work demonstrates Space as an element of design in that we can easily visualize the space that the photograph was taken. We see the road stretching out and the signs and lights in the darkness. We get a feeling of both open and closed space as the effect of disorientation helps to close the normally open space. 

It demonstrates Scale as a principle of design in that we can see multiple exposures of a car in the focal point in the photograph, so we are given a sense of scale based on a known object in real life. 

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We chose this work because it reminds us of the beginning of a hallucination. That moment where you realize that things truly are, “off”. Sometimes it's just something small, like a streetlight you swear wasn’t there before, or that you're walking in a foreign place but you know it intimately. You can’t quite place it, but things are wrong, and that splinter in your mind starts to dig and dig. You are infected by this little glitch, this little - change - in perception, and it sends you headlong into chaos.