Chris Fraikin‘s photographs capture the beauty of industrial buildings

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(Image credit: © Chris Fraikin)

Chris Fraikin’s photographs of buildings feature strong lines, geometric shapes and striking colors and call to mind the work of the famous abstract artist Piet Mondrian – perhaps there’s something in the water in the Netherlands, as Fraikin and Mondrian are both natives of that country.

But while Mondrian’s works were produced in a studio, the canvases that Fraikin chooses are outdoors and in the built environment: industrial buildings and factory sites that were designed to be functional, but which on closer inspection often also have a certain amount of visual appeal hiding in plain sight. 

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Chris Fraikin

Despite his age (born in 1958) Chris Fraikin from The Netherlands is still a newcomer to the art of photography. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where he studied graphic design in the seventies. He built a professional career for forty years in succession in the graphic, the IT and the music industry. In 2014 he decided to focus more on photography. He attended workshops and made several photo tours as well in The Netherlands as abroad. Besides projects of all kinds, his current field of interest is what he calls ‘archtracts’: minimalistic extracts of architectural and urban objects. He mostly roams at industrial sites to discover the objects which are photographed in a contemplative way.

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