Beijing, 2016
Archival pigment print
59 × 79 in.
Edition of 15
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May 19, 2025
Luca Campigotto has a particular gift for urban night photography, capturing how the forms of our contemporary built landscape are revealed by the light they generate.
The flowing architectural structures in this photograph are the unmistakable work of acclaimed Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid. Many of Hadid's late-career buildings are located in China, and this photograph depicts the courtyard of the Galaxy Soho building in Beijing, which had been completed just four years before this photo was taken.
Luca Campigotto photographs prolifically across the globe, and his equal focus on the vastness of both urban and natural vistas makes him uniquely suited to capture Hadid’s organic-feeling architecture. It is a testament to Hadid's vision and skill that her buildings don’t seem so much built, as much as formed by natural forces, thanks to their curved lines. This view of the Galaxy Soho brings to mind sand dunes carved by the wind, or rocks eroded by water on the ocean’s shore.
Campigotto made this photograph in 2016, the year of Hadid’s untimely death at the age of 65. This luminous image serves as a fitting tribute to how her legacy lives on in the cities that she reshaped around the world.
