Dresden in 7,500 pictures: A unique photo project reveals the city!

Dresden in 7,500 pictures: A unique photo project reveals the city!

A fascinating project in Dresden takes shape: The city archive has commissioned the architectural photographer Albrecht Voss to capture the entire city in 7,500 pictures. The ambitious project started in 2020 as part of a Europe -wide tender and represents a Germany -wide pilot project. Over 23 months, Voss, who spent about 100 days in the streets of Dresden, has documented the city with its impressive area of ​​325 square kilometers. He combined architectural photography with street photography and not only made pictures of striking buildings, but also from everyday life in the city. Photoscala reports that the images are anonymized and free of charge for the public, taking into account the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In addition, the pictures found their place on platforms like Wikipedia.

What is behind this extensive documentation project? Voss mostly worked alone, but received support from interns and employees who helped him to mark compulsory objects and the anonymization of the recordings. He implemented this with a Canon R5 and a TS-E 24 mm Tilt-Shift lens and a specialist camera from ARCA-Swiss. Voss had far -reaching creative freedom: only 10% of the recordings were mandatory objects, which allowed him to be freedom of choosing the motifs.

insight into the past

But that is not the only important development in the architecture and photography scene of Dresden: in October 2020 the Denkraum Sophienkirche Memorial was inaugurated. This could hardly need any better staging. The church, which took significant damage in 1945 due to air strikes and finally collapsed from a year later, is now being viewed in a new light. There was also special emphasis on photography. The recordings made for this memorial were carefully planned to banish unwanted elements such as dumpstiners and vehicles from the picture. The lighting conditions also played an important role. The entire planning included coordinations with various companies in order to optimally design the recordings and to ensure the easy accessibility of the locations. Ken Wagner emphasizes that a team of architects under the direction of Siegmar Lungwitz, Michael Athenstaedt and Professor Gerhard Glaser accompanied the project.

The recordings were made in three days at different times of the day, both with analog large -scale cameras and with digital technologies to document the eventful history and architectural progress in Dresden. The photographer, a Dresdener by profession, sees this work as a worthy conclusion to an important chapter. The memorial itself keeps parts of the old church ruins and at the same time reflects the modern architecture, with the guiding principle: "News from old work". This is also reflected in the decision -making process about the admission process, which is a symbiosis of old and modern technology.

public accessibility and effect

The results of the photographic work can not only be seen at exhibitions in Dresden, but are also available for interested parties via the city archive. The photos are available in JPEG format and offer a size of 2500 x 1667 pixels. Higher resolutions can be obtained on request. The image rights are in the city archive, and the photos are available under a Creative Commons license, which allows a duplication and change as long as the source is correctly mentioned. Dresden.de informs about the accessibility of these special documents.

Voss plans to pass on his knowledge and expertise in photo workshops in a bed and breakfast in southern Spain, which is an interesting future-oriented turn of his artistic work. In this way, the aim of the project is to make the past in conjunction with the present.