After months of isolation in 2020, the Leipzig photographer Albrecht Voss asked his oldest friend to join him on an adventure through the Alps taking photos of modern architecture. With just 20 days to capture 28 buildings in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and Germany, the project involved climbing glaciers in the dark and sleeping in empty chapels. “Our goal would be to be on top of the mountain during the golden hour, when the light is very beautiful,” he says. “Then we would wait until it gets dark at night, when the stars are visible.” The process often involved combining images, but Voss, now shortlisted for a Sony World Photography Award for the series, tried to stay as close to reality as possible. “People’s reaction is that I feel like I’m really there. »
Sony World Photography Awards exhibition takes place at Somerset HouseLondon, April 19 to May 6; albrechtvoss.com