Jorge Suárez Reinaldo - The Beauty of Architectural Photography

Jorge Suárez Reinaldo is a photographer whose work sits somewhere between architecture, landscape, cityscape, and fine-art photography. A lot of his best-known photos are in black and white, and there is a very clear style running through them with strong geometry, dramatic light, big structures, plenty of negative space, and compositions that feel very clean without being too perfect. Architecture is where that approach stands out the most. Jorge does not necessarily photograph a building just to show what it looks like. He looks for interesting pieces within it. A staircase, a concrete curve, repeating windows, the underside of a bridge, or a single line running across a structure. People sometimes appear in these scenes as well, but they are often tiny compared with the architecture around them. A person walking beneath a massive building immediately gives you a sense of scale, while also making the structure feel even more imposing. Black and white works particularly well with the way he sees these scenes. Once the color disappears, you’re paying much more attention to the actual structure of the photo. Lines become stronger, shadows become graphic elements, and differences between bright concrete and a dark sky suddenly become much more noticeable. He is also very good at working with dramatic skies. Clouds, long exposures, and darker tones often give his architectural photos a very different atmosphere. But then there’s another side to his photography that’s almost the complete opposite, macro. Jorge has a separate account, @ jorgesuarez_macro (on instagram), where the buildings and cityscapes disappear and you’re looking at insects, tiny details, and close-up textures. It is a very different scale, but interestingly, you can still see the same photographer behind it. He’s still looking for shape, structure, clean backgrounds, interesting light, and small details. The subject might have gone from a big piece of architecture to a small insect, but that