Arina Dähnick, an active photographer in the fields of fine arts and architecture lives and works in Berlin. Having grown up in a creative family, she came into contact with art and photography at a very youn age.
She had her first professional photographic exhibition when she was 17 years old. When, in 1986, Arina Dähnick decided not to make a living of her art, it led to a long pause in her production. The presentation of her work at the Leica Camera Blog 2014 was followed by countless exhibitions, as well as publications in newspapers and magazines. She made a name for herself both in Germany and abroad and gained a firm position on the international photographic scene with her series Perfect Life, Contemporary Architecture Barcelona and The MIES Project.
When she visits the world’s metropolises, she always has a legendary Leica M camera (an unusual option for architectural photography). Thus, the artist follows her photographical intuition, selects the angle and distance, the mood that different moments of the day and different seasons bring, sets the aperture, the exposure and the focus manually. She does not add anything to the result and constantly renounces any post-processing that might manipulate the images.
The key topics that Arina Dähnick approaches in her images are the life and urbanity of the city, the reflection and experience of space, the diametrical opposites of indoors and outdoors, of blurring and sharp clarity. Her extraordinary photographic eye penetrates the exterior façades in search of the poetic qualities and mysteries of urban space. With her camera she captures the soul of architecture, using colour and lines to create an intimate sensory experience of the spacian environment. The intertwined layers of images initiate a multifaceted play with reality and generate a perspective that is halfway between external reality and an imaginary inner eye.
She had her first professional photographic exhibition when she was 17 years old. When, in 1986, Arina Dähnick decided not to make a living of her art, it led to a long pause in her production. The presentation of her work at the Leica Camera Blog 2014 was followed by countless exhibitions, as well as publications in newspapers and magazines. She made a name for herself both in Germany and abroad and gained a firm position on the international photographic scene with her series Perfect Life, Contemporary Architecture Barcelona and The MIES Project.
When she visits the world’s metropolises, she always has a legendary Leica M camera (an unusual option for architectural photography). Thus, the artist follows her photographical intuition, selects the angle and distance, the mood that different moments of the day and different seasons bring, sets the aperture, the exposure and the focus manually. She does not add anything to the result and constantly renounces any post-processing that might manipulate the images.
The key topics that Arina Dähnick approaches in her images are the life and urbanity of the city, the reflection and experience of space, the diametrical opposites of indoors and outdoors, of blurring and sharp clarity. Her extraordinary photographic eye penetrates the exterior façades in search of the poetic qualities and mysteries of urban space. With her camera she captures the soul of architecture, using colour and lines to create an intimate sensory experience of the spacian environment. The intertwined layers of images initiate a multifaceted play with reality and generate a perspective that is halfway between external reality and an imaginary inner eye.
