After months of isolation in 2020, the Leipzig photographer Albrecht Voss asked his oldest friend to join him on an adventure through the Alps taking pictures of modern architecture. With just 20 days to capture 28 buildings in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and Germany, the project involved scaling glaciers in the dark and sleeping in empty chapels. “We would aim to be on top of the mountain for golden hour, when the light is very beautiful,” he says. “Then we’d wait until pitch black at night, when the stars are visible.” The process often involved combining images, but Voss, now shortlisted for a Sony world photography award for the series, tried to stay as close to reality as possible. “The reaction I get from people is that it feels like you are really there.”
The Sony world photography awards exhibition is at Somerset House, London, from 19 April to 6 May; albrechtvoss.com
