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Concrete colossi of war-ravaged Europe captured in black and white

Concrete colossi of war-ravaged Europe captured in black and white

A limited-edition collection of photographs by interior designer and collector Don Cameron channels the immense power of the Continent's far-flung Brutalist beauties.

"Vienna", shot by Don Cameron using a classic Hasselblad camera, shows the brutalist Church of the Most Holy Trinity, designed by Fritz Wotruba in the 1970s. Don Cameron

Straight out of film school at London’s Central Saint Martins college, Don Cameron kicked off the millennium directing music videos for Blur, Moloko and the Pet Shop Boys. The retro-futuristic elegance of his aesthetic jibed nicely with a time focused at once backwards and forwards, and soon enough the Dubbo-born lad was being commissioned to create advertising for European mega-brands including Audi, Braun and L’Oréal.

It was on one such job, for Switzerland Tourism, that he encountered his first Brutalist churches: defiantly blocky concrete structures from the middle of last century that seemed to surge from villages with roots in the Middle Ages.

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