A Rift beyond the Sky

Photography

About

A Rift Beyond the Skies is a photographic series that explores how urban architecture fractures our perception of the sky. By inverting each photograph into high-contrast negatives, I disrupt familiar ways of seeing the city. The once-bright sky becomes heavy and dark, while towers and facades glow in stark contrast, appearing almost otherworldly. This reversal shifts attention upward, reorienting the viewer’s gaze and making the sky feel dense, inaccessible, and ruptured.

The buildings rise like rifts, cutting through the horizon, imposing themselves as barriers rather than backdrops. These forms of vertical ambition highlight how architecture doesn’t simply occupy space but reshapes our relationship to openness and belonging. Something as universal as the sky, traditionally a symbol of freedom and continuity, becomes

fragmented, boxed in by glass, steel, and concrete.

The series reflects my ongoing interest in how built environments affect emotional life, particularly in dense, global cities where visibility and space are tightly controlled. By manipulating photographic perspective and tonality, I aim to reveal moments where the sky itself feels contested, not a shared expanse but a fractured surface. These images question how much of the world above us we truly have access to, and at what cost.