mark alan andre uses infrared to radically alter familiar DC sights

mark alan andre uses infrared to radically alter familiar DC sights
all image courtesy of mark alan andre

architect and photographer mark alan andre has called washington DC home since graduating from kansas city university’s master of arch. program in 2011. the city’s features — triangle parks, tree-lined avenues, the national mall — have become every day sights, accompanied by an always present backdrop of historic federal architecture. andre’s ‘infrared’ series, is a personal attempt to shed the nation’s capitol in a different light (literally), revealing familiarity through a radically altered lens.

vietnam memorial 

by capturing wavelengths of light invisible to the human eye, common materials behave entirely different. glass takes on an opaque darkness, plants become a ghostly white, and pedestrians take on a varied, other-worldly appearance. images were taken by andre using a standard DSLR with settings modified to filter out all visible light, leaving only the ‘infrared’. 

M street in georgetown

the chesapeake & ohio canal

old capitol columns at the national arboretum 

rock creek parkway 

kogod courtyard at the smithsonian 

moongate at the smithsonian

thomas jefferson memorial on the tidal basin 

the old post office tower 

U.S. capitol dome under a layer of scaffolding 

traffic passing the world bank

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