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Dizzying Architectural Photography

Nikola Olic’s photographs zoom and tilt to reveal vertigo-inducing angles.

With names like Twisted, Mesh, and Lasagna, Dallas-based photographer Nikola Olic’s images present a surreal, abstracted view of buildings. Olic lives and works in Dallas, Texas, focusing on “architectural photography and abstract structural quotes that reimagine their subjects in dimensionless and disorienting ways.” In 2014, Olic participated in the Positive / Negative Spaces public exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. To follow, a journey through Olic’s hypnotic images.

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Twisted, 2014. “With its metallic waves and twisted reflections, this Frank Gehry masterpiece in New York City looks out of place in a beautifully unexpected way, seen here from the nearby Brooklyn Bridge,” says Olic.
Twisted, 2014. “With its metallic waves and twisted reflections, this Frank Gehry masterpiece in New York City looks out of place in a beautifully unexpected way, seen here from the nearby Brooklyn Bridge,” says Olic.
Hypnotic, 2014. “The saturated facade of this late-modernist 1981 office building in Houston, Texas, exposes the inner paths of its elevators, outlining the dramatic black-and-white lines with glass and aluminum,” notes Olic.
Hypnotic, 2014. “The saturated facade of this late-modernist 1981 office building in Houston, Texas, exposes the inner paths of its elevators, outlining the dramatic black-and-white lines with glass and aluminum,” notes Olic.
Lasagna: “The best time to photograph this unusual layered building north of San Antonio, Texas, is early morning, giving the one memorable side of the structure plenty of strong light for its complexity and angles—visible for miles,” notes Olic.
Lasagna: “The best time to photograph this unusual layered building north of San Antonio, Texas, is early morning, giving the one memorable side of the structure plenty of strong light for its complexity and angles—visible for miles,” notes Olic.
Ripped, 2014. “The angled top floors of this dark red office building in New Orleans, Louisiana, provide an interesting collage with the white building a few blocks down the street,” says Olic. Combining the two is a simple photographic idea of a structure ripped into two distinct parts.”
Ripped, 2014. “The angled top floors of this dark red office building in New Orleans, Louisiana, provide an interesting collage with the white building a few blocks down the street,” says Olic. Combining the two is a simple photographic idea of a structure ripped into two distinct parts.”
Stairs, 2014. “The tallest building in Fort Worth, Texas, this simple brutalist architectural design is a unique addition to the vibrant and growing downtown landscape, with a strong, repetitive pattern of windows being interrupted by meticulous, powerful vertical lines,” says Olic.
Stairs, 2014. “The tallest building in Fort Worth, Texas, this simple brutalist architectural design is a unique addition to the vibrant and growing downtown landscape, with a strong, repetitive pattern of windows being interrupted by meticulous, powerful vertical lines,” says Olic.
Diagonal, 2014. “This new building in downtown Dallas explores is the representation of nature and flora found through Texas,” says Olic. “Its garden, roof, and balconies hold plant life in modern concrete enclosures, often providing unexpected disorienting angles.”
Diagonal, 2014. “This new building in downtown Dallas explores is the representation of nature and flora found through Texas,” says Olic. “Its garden, roof, and balconies hold plant life in modern concrete enclosures, often providing unexpected disorienting angles.”