About Stephanie Jung
Stephanie Jung is a freelance photographer based in Berlin, Germany. In 2010 she finished her studies in Visual Communications, where she discovered her passion for experimental photography.
She loves to travel all over the world, especially to big cities, to capture the vibrant and hectic mood of a place. But her work is not just about citylife, it’s about time and caducity, about capturing special moments getting lost in time. Her extraordinary shots show cities that depict reality but nonetheless lead to a different, surreal dimension apart from our real world.
With her camera, she does no more than 4 exposures. She believes anything more than that is hard to control and the pictures’ structure vanishes. Instead, she reworks the images, adding elements and editing them the way she likes.
“It’s about time and caducity”
– Stephanie Jung
Image Analysis
This was one of the photos that Jung took while in New York, portraying a busy, crowded area. Jung’s fascinating technique causes her multiple-exposure photographs to have many different layers- illustrating reality as we normally see it but nevertheless portraying many bizarre and unearthly dimensions within her pictures. This entrancing piece is a perfect example of her unique approach- her use of multiple exposures combined together creating a ghostly appearance. The range of different opacities provokes a cluttered effect to emerge throughout the image, creating an effective look and engaging the audience more. The high saturation of the image makes the colours stand out, the oranges and reds overtaking and causing the picture to be mostly made up from warm tones. There is a sense of repetition in this piece, some areas (such as billboards) being repeated in the image numerous times, producing an overlapping effect that brings depth into the image, causing there to be a 3D effect and adding an interesting look to it. Furthermore, the layered rectangular billboards create a pattern of blocky shapes within the photo, adding a harsher and sharper look to the photo. This photograph captures the true complexity of this cityscape, Jung accentuating these qualities with her editing later on, layering different photos together. This image seems to be consistently shifting, causing the audience to notice new things each time they look at the image. This piece is an perfect balance between time and timelessness, the photo seeming everlastingly alive. The people going about their day adds another sense of chaos to the image. The overall feeling of chaos seems to be quite disruptive and exaggerated however, when looking more at the picture, proves to be a beautifully abstract way of reducing the complexity of the landscape. This image is a perfect example of photographs being able to capture more than a single moment in time, as he piece clearly has a much longer timeline.