Drone Photographs of Bogotá's Grand Architecture Show the "Unedited" Side of the City
Colombian graphic designer and creative director Camilo Monzón's Instagram account is not your average catalog of Bogotá's iconic architecture.
La Biblioteca Virgilio Barco from a certain perspective inspired by the movie "Inception". Image © Camilo Monzón
Colombian graphic designer and creative director Camilo Monzón's Instagram account is not your average catalog of Bogotá's iconic architecture. Camilo explains that his particular way of capturing the city arose while he tried out his drone. "I realized that the tiles from nearby buildings showed me an unedited side of Bogotá that should be revealed and shown to everyone," he said in a conversation with ArchDaily en Español. "I think of it as rediscovering the city."
Las Torres del Parque, designed by Rogelio Salmona. Image © Camilo Monzón
His images use Photoshop to merge Bogotá's notable buildings like the Planetario Distrital, Plaza de Toros de Santamaría and the Torres del Parque, with photographs of the roadways and roundabouts that dot the Colombian capital. "The work of Rogelio Salmona is iconic and obviously beautiful, but there are other places where one can find a visual richness that is not necessarily linked to Salmona's work," says Monzón.Light, shadow, and geometry that "breaks with what we are traditionally used to see...
La Biblioteca Virgilio Barco from a certain perspective inspired by the movie "Inception". Image © Camilo Monzón
Colombian graphic designer and creative director Camilo Monzón's Instagram account is not your average catalog of Bogotá's iconic architecture. Camilo explains that his particular way of capturing the city arose while he tried out his drone. "I realized that the tiles from nearby buildings showed me an unedited side of Bogotá that should be revealed and shown to everyone," he said in a conversation with ArchDaily en Español. "I think of it as rediscovering the city."
Las Torres del Parque, designed by Rogelio Salmona. Image © Camilo Monzón
His images use Photoshop to merge Bogotá's notable buildings like the Planetario Distrital, Plaza de Toros de Santamaría and the Torres del Parque, with photographs of the roadways and roundabouts that dot the Colombian capital. "The work of Rogelio Salmona is iconic and obviously beautiful, but there are other places where one can find a visual richness that is not necessarily linked to Salmona's work," says Monzón.Light, shadow, and geometry that "breaks with what we are traditionally used to see...
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