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Photography

Golden-hour Iowa farmland and Chicago steel and glass, two very different subjects, same instinct to stop and look up.

Photography rounds out the same eye Kian brings to painting and engineering drawings: framing, light, and getting the small details right. The digital work splits between Iowa farmland at golden hour and Chicago's streets and towers, and there is a growing set of black-and-white film. Tap any photo to see it larger.

Chicago

Shot on trips into the city, mostly looking up or down a street canyon.

A view straight up the glass facade of a skyscraperLooking straight up a glass skyscraper facade
The antennas of the John Hancock Center rising between apartment and glass towers under a gray skyThe Hancock Center antennas between buildings
Looking up at the Kinzie Hotel sign between two Chicago skyscrapersLooking up at the Kinzie Hotel sign
Looking up between two glass towers with a beige tower in the distanceTwo glass towers from the sidewalk
A busy Loop street seen from above, crossed by elevated L tracks and lined with tall stone buildingsA Loop street crossed by the elevated tracks
A street receding between stone and glass buildings in the Loop, with buses and police cars belowA street canyon in the Loop, seen from above
Curved glass residential towers beside a stone building with the NBC peacock logo, at duskCurved glass towers near the river at dusk
The Chicago skyline lit up at dusk under a cloudy skyThe Chicago skyline at dusk

Iowa

Farmland and a car at golden hour, plus one dew drop.

A car parked along the edge of an Iowa cornfield at duskA car parked along a cornfield at dusk
An orange sunset silhouetting a treeline over Iowa farmlandSunset behind an Iowa treeline
A field of grass backlit by a setting sun, with a treeline in the distanceA field of grass at sunset
Macro photo of a dew drop balanced on the tip of a blade of grassMacro shot of a dew drop on a blade of grass

Black-and-white film

Prints and a contact sheet from rolls of Kodak Tri-X 400.

Black-and-white print of a gravel road running to the horizon beside a line of utility polesA gravel road and utility poles, printed from film
Abstract black-and-white print of blurred city lights and dark building massesA blurred, high-contrast city print
Black-and-white contact sheet of thirty-some frames showing roads, fields, a car, and flowersA contact sheet of Iowa roads, fields, and flowers