Thank you for the many submissions to the hashtag campaign <#pattern> that was recently held.
Many works were submitted focusing on regular patterns and designs with meaning, whether hidden in the city or found in nature!
From the works collected during this campaign, we are pleased to feature and introduce several selected pieces.
Editor’s Choice #pattern
Photo by kahoru
kahoru
“Hanging Lanterns”
cizucu Editorial Team
This photograph captures a row of lanterns hanging from the eaves of a temple, together with the tiled roof. The image vividly encapsulates the beauty of ‘orderly repetition’ inherent in traditional Japanese architecture. Each lantern and roof tile is adorned with culturally meaningful, meticulously crafted motifs, and their regular arrangement conveys a sense of gravitas born from a long, accumulated history. While the beauty found in repetition in contemporary architecture often derives from geometric aesthetics, this image powerfully evokes a sense of beauty rooted in history and cultural context, even within the same repetition.
Photo by yan
yan
Resort Hotel
cizucu Editorial Team
This photograph captures the exterior of a white hotel. The contrast between the predominantly white façade and the rhythmically arranged blue-tinted glass evokes a sense of cleanliness and the sophisticated geometric rhythm of the urban environment. While each window conceals a different life within, the exterior unifies them into a single, monumental pattern. This work draws attention to the ‘beauty of alignment’ unique to contemporary architecture, where the boundary between the individual and the whole becomes blurred.
Photo by PAPALIN
PAPALIN
cizucu Editorial Team
This image captures a concrete ground finished with stones in a mosaic-like arrangement. The monochrome processing accentuates the shapes of each stone and the way light reflects off them, revealing a variety of patterns. Even stones that appear to be arranged irregularly seem to form patterns through the interplay of color and shape, even if they do not convey a specific meaning. This photograph reminds us that even in the everyday, outside of special locations, there are small discoveries and moments of awareness waiting to be found.
In Closing
What did you think?
Whether intentionally created motifs or patterns emerging from irregularity,
some works evoke geometric beauty through repeated motifs, while others convey a sense of gravitas through their historical significance.
Even when photographing similar motifs, our perceptions can vary greatly depending on the meaning and cultural background of the subject.
We are able to perceive beauty in ‘regularity’ and ‘motifs’, and the city is filled with countless calculated patterns, often unnoticed.
Next time you go out to shoot, try focusing on the patterns around you that stimulate your sensibilities!
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