City fine art photography by Teus Renes

Black-and-white photograph of a person walking through an arched tunnel in Berlin.

Urban Passageway in MonochromeBerlin, Germany

Collection Note

A quieter way into the city collection.

Some pictures are about structure and symmetry, others about atmosphere after dark. Usually the frame is simplified to one thing: a shaft of light, a repeated shape, a single figure. The four works below each show a different side of that, from architectural detail to evening scenes.

Urban Passageway in Monochrome

A tunnel in Berlin with a row of arches getting smaller toward the far end, where the light is. In black and white it looks older than it is.

Black-and-white photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge at night, with the lit Manhattan skyline behind it.

Brooklyn Bridge: Urban Nocturne

The Brooklyn Bridge at dusk, just before full dark, with its cables leading to the stone tower and the Manhattan skyline lit up behind it.

Art Deco doors of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, New York City.

Chrysler Building Doors, New York

The Art Deco entrance of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, photographed close up: polished metal, stepped geometry, and the pattern of the doors.

The Eiffel Tower and the dome of Les Invalides lit up at twilight in Paris.

Eiffel Tower & Invalides at Dusk

The Eiffel Tower and the gilded dome of Les Invalides in Paris, both lit up at twilight.

Black-and-white photograph of the geometric lines of a modern corridor in Mechelen, Belgium.

Urban Geometry in Passage

The walls, ceiling, and lights of a modern corridor in Mechelen, Belgium, forming converging lines in black and white.

Black-and-white abstract of the facade of the De Rotterdam building in Rotterdam.

Vertical City: Rhythms of De Rotterdam

A black-and-white detail of De Rotterdam, Rem Koolhaas's stacked towers on the Maas, cropped until the facade becomes a grid of lines and glass.

Piazza del Popolo at dusk in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, with illuminated colonnades.

Piazza del Popolo at Dusk, Ascoli Piceno

The Piazza del Popolo in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, at dusk in 2015, with the colonnades lit and the last of the evening light in the sky.

Red Giants of Katendrecht

Two reddish-brown residential towers at the 2e Katendrechtse Haven in Rotterdam, photographed against a clear blue sky.

Priest walking beneath the colonnade of St. Peter's in Vatican City.

Priest in St. Peter's Colonnade

A priest walking through a band of warm light under the colonnade of St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, 2011.

The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre, Paris, lit up at dusk.

Sacré-Cœur at Night: Parisian Illumination

The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre in Paris, lit up against the evening sky.

Monochrome Majesty: New York City Skyline

A black-and-white panorama of the New York City skyline, 2024.

A gargoyle on Notre-Dame de Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the distance at sunset.

Gargoyle's Gaze: Paris at Twilight

A gargoyle on Notre-Dame looking out over Paris at sunset, with the Eiffel Tower in the distance.

Black-and-white symmetrical view inside Liège-Guillemins station, Belgium.

Symmetry at Liège-Guillemins

The interior of Liège-Guillemins station in Belgium, photographed dead centre so the two halves mirror each other. Black and white, 2011.

Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, taken from a low angle.

Under the Eiffel: Parisian Perspective

The Eiffel Tower photographed from a low angle in black and white, with a pedestrian in the foreground for scale.

A long, empty staircase descending into a Paris Métro station.

Subway Descent: Monochrome Staircase

Black-and-white photograph of a long, empty staircase leading down into a Paris Métro station, with the steps and handrails repeating toward the bottom.