i’m sure you’ve been there, having just visited your hundredth museum on holiday somewhere in Europe, the hundreds of years old frescoes all blurring into one as you walk glassy eyed from room to room and take yet another photo without even thinking. i know i have! isn’t it crazy how we take such intricate buildings and interiors completely for granted most of the time? but when you really look at them you realise how insanely breathtaking they are, and how much detail and time (months, years!) must have gone into them. that’s what David Burdeny makes you do when you look at these locations he has photographed in Italy, Russia, Cuba and various parts of Europe.
Burdeny translates his intimate appreciation for the structure, details and metaphorical value of space into sublime observations on how the contemporary world is still pregnant with mystery and potential. Burdeny has explored both opulent and austere interior scenes that use the sensuality of colour to full effect. Whether focused on ordinary spaces or iconic settings, Burdeny’s photographs occupy an artistic middle ground between the physical and the atmospheric, the concrete and the spiritual, the actual and the idealized. They represent not strictly what he found but his personal experience of these enigmatic and luminous locations.
his entire portfolio is impressive – particularly his new Italy photographs – but it’s the interiors that struck me the most. no wonder, because Burdeny has a masters in architecture and interior design. also i never realised that Russian subway stations have such an impressive number of chandeliers…
