Rut Blees Luxemburg

Rut Blees Luxemburg is a German photographer that works in London photographing the urban landscape. She likes to use long exposures to make sure that the light from streets and buildings are the only source of light in the photos. She explains that she can only take photos in a location that she has a link with. She makes her images recognisable by the colours and tones she makes. Luxemburg makes a familiar surrounding almost seem alien and abstract.

This image was taken at the top of a car park looking down. This image consists of lots of lines that point straight towards the ground, the lines that don't; lead the viewers eyes towards the lines that point towards the ground. Looking at this image it looks like the cars and the building build a structure that lies on the area of ground underneath it like a pattern. A yellow tint is clearly visible; this is probably because of the shutter speed that was needed. It used the lights that are in the car park and the street lights to illuminate the image. These lights use warm light bulbs which creates warm colours. The image has a tilt which makes me feel like it was in a frame and one side of it has fell so you can only see two sides of the frame of the image. 

This image is very different to the first one. Firstly the colour tone is cold, I think that this is because the main light source is a spotlight like the ones used to light a football field. The light source is nearly in the middle of the image which has created dense shadows from the objects that are infront of it. This image is also level unlike the other which makes the audience focus on the lines and the tones that is in the image. There looks like there is and 'x' leading towards the light source which looks like its a metal wire mesh fence. The 'x', world sculpture and poles pointing up all lead towards the light source. The light source is also framed by the stand that the world sculture is supported by; this suggests that the main subject of the image is the light source, maybe this is because it is very unusual to find this amount light in an urban landscape and how it is all used to create the tones in this image. I really like this image because it is very complex  how light have been used out of frame and how everything has been positioned. Luxemburg has positioned everything specifically to enhance the emotion that the tones and light produce because is feels very angelic.