From the Shut Your Aperture archive (2014): this gallery and contributor remarks reflect their original publication period.

Modern Cityscapes by Simas Lin

Modern Cityscapes by Simas Lin.

In the 1920s a group of psychologists in Germany developed a series of theories, called Gestalt (German: Gestalt “shape, form”) theories, of visual perception, describing how viewers group together different objects into groups or a single coherent whole when the separate elements are arranged together in a particular way.

‘Modern cityscapes’ is a result of my newly born passion for lines / forms / shapes in photography.

I am driven by the concept that the environment is a system composed of fragments that consists of forms that are made up of shapes and every single of them is an inseparable part of the beautiful whole. I recently developed an individual and unique view of the world which is based on a vital importance of the details. I am now looking into the environment as into the boundless puzzle full of intersecting lines / forms / shapes, but still remaining very minimal and aesthetic. Says Simas Lin.

Pointed roofline against a pale blue skySavePink building facade with square windowsSaveTwin apartment towers against a blue skySaveSingle high-rise building framed by blue skySaveAngular glass building facadeSavePatterned apartment building against skySaveClose view of repeating geometric windowsSaveModern low building against a cyan skySaveCurved building facade and skySaveWhite angular roof against teal skySaveHorizontal facade viewed from belowSaveModern office buildings and glass panelsSaveHigh-rise tower against a blue skySaveRegular grid of windows across a facadeSaveBalconied building against pale blue skySaveMinimalist white building with dark windowsSaveYellow-and-grey apartment buildingSaveMetallic cylindrical tower beside a buildingSaveDark grid facade against cyan skySaveAbstract building edge against a blue-green skySave

See Simas Lin’s Behance profile.

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