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‘Stenop.es’ is a photography project by cousins Romain Alvery and Antoine Levi in which the outside surroundings are projected onto the interiors of Parisian apartments.
Inspired by an incident during their travels in 2009 when the light streaming through a torn window shade cast moving colors and shadows onto their hotel room ceiling, they aimed to capture the intimate relationship between the exteriors and interiors of Parisian apartments through photography and time-lapse videos.
Alvery and Levi followed the camera obscura principles set by the philosopher Aristotle, which states that “sunlight traveling through small openings between the leaves of a tree, the holes of a sieve, the openings wickerwork, and even interlaced fingers will create circular patches of light on the ground.” With the camera obscura, the image is turned 180 degrees upside down, and the relationship between its clarity and brightness is inverse.
According to Levi, they wanted to show the architectural diversity of the surroundings and building interiors of Paris, and highlight the relationship between the people and their environment.
The results are surreal and spectacular: buildings and colorful scenes from the outside world are juxtaposed upside down against the walls and ceilings of empty apartments.
Watch a video and gaze at some photos below.
[via Fast Company, images via Stenop.es]
‘Stenop.es’ is a photography project by cousins Romain Alvery and Antoine Levi in which the outside surroundings are projected onto the interiors of Parisian apartments.
Inspired by an incident during their travels in 2009 when the light streaming through a torn window shade cast moving colors and shadows onto their hotel room ceiling, they aimed to capture the intimate relationship between the exteriors and interiors of Parisian apartments through photography and time-lapse videos.
Alvery and Levi followed the camera obscura principles set by the philosopher Aristotle, which states that “sunlight traveling through small openings between the leaves of a tree, the holes of a sieve, the openings wickerwork, and even interlaced fingers will create circular patches of light on the ground.” With the camera obscura, the image is turned 180 degrees upside down, and the relationship between its clarity and brightness is inverse.
According to Levi, they wanted to show the architectural diversity of the surroundings and building interiors of Paris, and highlight the relationship between the people and their environment.
The results are surreal and spectacular: buildings and colorful scenes from the outside world are juxtaposed upside down against the walls and ceilings of empty apartments.
Watch a video and gaze at some photos below.
[via Fast Company, images via Stenop.es]