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Sven Lützenkirchen’s Industrial Revolution

GALLERY
15.05.14

 

Photographer Sven Lützenkirchen’s Werke series reveals a secret side to factory architecture. Each is a dry image of a sprawling industrial site in Germany but, rotated vertically and mirrored, the images start to take on new identities resembling towering robots, exotic totems, nuclear warheads or mechanical insects.

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#10 Kalkwerk (lime plant), 20

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#1 Steinkohle Bergwerk (coal pit), 2009

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#6 Kieswerk (gravel pit), 2011

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#11 Zementfabrik (cement works), 2013

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#2 Rußfabrik (carbon black factory), 2011

  

 

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