As an architect, enjoyment comes from exploring the urban landscape for the details which are typically unnoticed or unseen everyday.
The lost, random, and unpredictable humanise the small, unimportant places we typically frequent, and often we try to avoid them because they are deemed irrelevant or uqly.
Steffen is a Brisbane-based, self-taught photographer with a background in architecture. Her work focuses on the urban streetscape, particularly overlooked spaces such as back lanes, service yards, and neglected built edges.
Through a reductionist approach, she seeks out simple forms and subtle colour, using light and shadow to reveal quiet narratives within the “urban wild”. Seasonal change, weathering, patina, and traces of human presence shape her ongoing exploration of place.