Metropolis is a visual study on the often ignored part of San Francisco: the high rise buildings in the Financial District and SoMa area. The series showcases the peculiar shapes of the buildings and something that most big cities don’t have: wide open spaces to capture the grandiosity of each one of the buildings. This was also a personal challenge for me. I wanted to capture something beautiful on a bright sunny day at noon when the light is at its harshest.

San Francisco is no generic city. Sprawling hills, poetic graffiti, immortal Victorian houses, perpetual spring air, and a towering metropolis. All within a block of land twice the size of Manhattan. As Dave Eggers said in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius:

There is no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. Its the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons.

No city also went through the dramatic cultural shift that San Francisco did in the last few decades – from the hippy love-filled daze to the fast-paced caffeine-fueled days. The beauty of San Francisco, however, is that these two worlds co-exist. This series aims to capture that feeling. Most people know San Francisco through the colors. I want them to know San Francisco through the shapes. Next time you are walking through San Francisco streets, look up or look at the reflections in the windows and follow the shadows; they reveal the peculiar San Francisco light. Enjoy: