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Drawing photographic blueprints with @mireneelton

For more photos from Mirene, follow @mireneelton.

Chilean architect Mirene Elton (@mireneelton) is constantly building something, and her photography is no exception. “I enjoy erasing elements like the sky or some other part of the context to highlight another element,” says Mirene, who uses an editing app to play with contrasts in color that sometimes obscure parts of an image entirely. “My photographs are more graphic pictures than realistic images.” Mirene uses her camera to draw as she might on her blueprints. “A common characteristic in my pictures is that they tend to capture planes, similar to the way architecture is technically drawn in frontal views,” she says. “I usually capture an image with little or no use of perspective.”

Capturing images of Chile’s diverse landscapes has also inspired her studio work. “I think my formation as an architect and my love for photography have made a good blend. Both complement each other and make me see architecture and nature in a different way.”

Mirene’s love for photography dates back to when she was very young and had a darkroom at home to develop her black-and-white photographs. “I also had a big collection of color slides that I took for several years, with a manual camera,” she says. “At the time I used to project the slides on a white wall, and enjoyed watching them with my friends.” When photography turned digital, Mirene found it became more difficult to share her work. “It was possible to take lots of photographs and keep them safe on your computer, but it was not easy to share them with other people,” she says. Later, Instagram became a bit like her old slide viewing parties, inspiring her to explore shooting with her smartphone. “It became an easy way to share pictures with other people.”

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