Sander Meisner is a self-taught photographer (Amsterdam, 1979) living and working in Amsterdam. He photographs the sleeping infrastructure of the urban environment, shooting in the middle of the night he often goes out at ten or eleven, photographing until sunrise.
I tend to go to the outer regions of a city, to the more industrial and commercial areas to shoot. These areas are similar in any city. That’s part of the reason why they interest me so much, everybody recognizes them for what they are, yet nobody likes them.
By night, people often feel a lot of places become quiet sinister, but if you look deeper, the night creates a lot of beauty in places that aren’t considered beautiful. The colors, shadows and transformation of texture and geometric appearance of a lot of places at night can dramatically increase their beauty. People fear the dark, but when photographed with long shutter speeds the dark turns out to be both very colorful and pretty.
Sander Meisner is represented by Brandt gallery in Amsterdam.
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