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EDDY DE AZEVEDOEddy De Azevedo is a French photographer who is very much

inspired by Mark Rothko and 1950s Colour Field paintings. He has created a series of photographic images using everyday objects, such as lighters, coloured paper, book spines and fabrics. Eddy usually categorizes his photographs by the materials that he used: “Office” for stacked paper, “Dressings” for fabrics, “Library” for books, and “Walking my dog” for objects he’s found on the streets. By changing the scale of the depicted objects, and through the uniformity of colour, the photographer seeks to create a visual effect, where the viewer forgets about the object and focuses on the colour instead – also one of the aspirations of Colour Field painters. His work would come under the abstract category of photography.

You can see in Eddy De Azevedo’s photographs that he clearly uses layers within them – for example, his stacks of paper and fabrics. He also frames all of his pictures into a shape, where the objects within them are fitted into the frame of the camera perfectly. I personally really like his photographs and think they are very interesting, mostly due to the colour schemes used and the layers that are almost always present in them.

ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY

There is no standard definition of abstract photography. Actually, it is not easy to create a clear-cut definition of an abstract concept. Abstract photography can produce very dramatic images - it relies on our more primal sense of form, colour, and curves than it does on detail. The problem is that most photographers tend to think in terms of detail when evaluating photographic opportunities. However, it takes a different way of looking at our world to perceive the abstract photography opportunities that surround us.