PLACES — Thresholds, color, and atmosphere worldwide

Tim Klein’s Places collection gathers architectural fragments, civic corners, and quietly charged thresholds from varied geographies, moving from the Korean DMZ’s green perimeter to fortress doors, temple gates, harbor streets, and pastel facades. Across the photographs, windows, courtyards, alleys, railings, swings, umbrellas, bridges, and storefronts become recurring visual anchors, while details like laundry lines, lantern canopies, shutters, arches, and weathered walls create texture and rhythm.

The mood shifts between playful, solitary, ceremonial, and cinematic: a fairground skyway, a sunset swing set, a rain-washed court, a doorway passerby, and hushed interior glimpses all suggest human presence even when no figure is centered. As a group, the images trend toward thresholds and edges—entries, exits, frames, and perimeters—turning everyday places into portraits of atmosphere, color, and spatial memory.

Bright color pairings and repeated geometric forms connect distant locations, so tenements, courtyards, balconies, and roadside structures feel part of one visual language, balancing documentary specificity with design-forward composition and emotional restraint throughout the page.