Photography: CCCLXXIX’s shiny shots of organic textures and twinkling surfaces

The enigmatically named CCCLXXIX, also known as simply Alexandre, beautifully photographs spaces where rocky, verbose nature spectacularly collides with great, indifferent slabs of cement. Alexandre’s work, which contains just a dash of Tillmans, is primarily fixated on contrasting concrete textures and sharp angels with organic shapes and patterns. The images are very still and very silent, composed in the sun, and beautifully offset with bold shadows. Alexandre has a particular eye for twinkling car surfaces, colourful stacks in warehouses, roads and rocks, and whilst the set of selected shots featured here are spectacular and stunning, the photographs are best viewed together in abundance and in the coordinating palette sets on Alexandre’s site.