Dunedin Train Station New Zealand | Black and White Photography
Light and Shadow Along Dunedin’s Historic Railway Platform
What caught me here wasn't the grand exterior of Dunedin Train Station. It was the platform.
I photographed the station in 2016 while travelling through New Zealand's South Island. Instead of stepping back to make the familiar postcard view, I was drawn beneath the long covered platform, where the architecture creates an extraordinary tunnel of repeating steel arches, glass, stone and shadow.
The perspective does most of the work. Everything pulls toward a distant vanishing point—the railway tracks, platform edge, roof structure, lamps and the beautiful row of arched station windows on the left. Even the shadows stretch diagonally across the pavement, adding another layer of lines to the composition.
Black and white felt natural for this photograph. Without color competing for attention, the structure becomes much more obvious. Sunlight strikes the stone facade and sections of the platform while the steel canopy moves repeatedly between brilliant highlights and deep shadow.
I particularly like that the station is almost empty.
Dunedin Train Station is one of New Zealand's best-known architectural landmarks, but this photograph isn't really about its fame. I was more interested in what happened when I moved away from the obvious view and looked down the length of the platform itself.
That's often where I find the photograph I want—not directly in front of the landmark, but somewhere around the edges.
Here, an old railway station became a study in perspective, repetition, architecture and light.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2016
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