As an architect, enjoyment comes from exploring the urban landscape for the details which are typically unnoticed or unseen everyday.
The lost, random, and unpredictable humanise the small, unimportant places we typically frequent, and often we try to avoid them because they are deemed irrelevant or uqly.
Steffen lives in Brisbane, Australia and is a self-taught photographer. She concentrates her images on the urban streetscape, mostly near her home.
Training in architecture lends a reductionist viewpoint to her urban landscapes. She looks for elementary, bland forms to provide a blank canvas for the changing joy of light and shadow-play. Her images show colour in the ‘urban wild’ and details of the lost, misplaced and random.
Back lanes, service yards, and neglected built edges are where opportunities exist to fine-tune a story about the place. Coaxing the sundry minutiae from ‘hidden’ spaces in the urban chaos requires focused examination, sometimes over many visits, to bring fresh insight into their subtleties.
The seasonal variation and contrasts of weathering and patina, with the odd chance of human use and misuse, all play a role in uncovering Tuck’s hidden ‘animateur’.