Branca Lina ‘Brancolina’ Urta, an architect, interior stylist and architectural photographer based in Antwerp, Belgium. Besides the University degree in architecture, I studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KASK) and at the ENCORA, where I specialised in architectural photography.
I am mainly interested in architectural and urban photography. I also work as the artwork photographer.
I’ve published 3 books with selected photos from my series, to preview click badges bellow:
URBAN STORIES
WINDOW STORIES
ABSTRACTED ARCHITECTURE
The photo book ABERTURAS is published in 2018 in collaboration with Carlos Pataca.
My photos are copyrighted with ©all rights reserved, they may not be used in any kind of printed/online publication without my permission and given name credit.
All photos featured on this website are available in hi-resolution and large size, if you would like to publish or license anything please contact me on bran.urta@gmail.com
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In the period 2009 – 2011 I administrated the online photo gallery Shadé and I published 2 annual books with a selection of photos from the gallery’s thematic exhibitions, which were curated by Shadé’s photographers.
Click on the badges to preview all pages and details of the book:
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My contributions to magazines, books and selected online publications:
Hypo – X – Series, A digital curation by Alan Wilson
Y SIN EMBARGO #16, Du-champ-issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #17, Mess-up mess-age issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #18, Inside-out issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #19, super#F issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #20, Extimacy issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #21, Ink or link issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #22, cap-it-all/off issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #24, In-betwen the net issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #25, Just a memory issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #26, Uroborus issue
Y SIN EMBARGO #28, you/END/me issue
Y SIN EMBARGO # 29, end/s issue
U.K’s The Building Mag
Photographer #8 photos + interview
on Azurebumble’s blog Aesthetic investigations: Brancolina : photography, Brancolina – photography, Breaking the darkness, Blue room and Symmetrical spaces.
DOZE#5, Visionär issue
cameraobscura online photography magazine
a selection of photos with an interview on Lucid communications website
10 monochrome photos in A.I. series collective photo book by Alan Wilson
a photo featured in promotional publication for Monica Förster’s office chair Lei
a selection of photos from Mondrianization series published in the Digital camera magazine from June 2012
online publication on Archidaily
a photo featured in the book ‘Glass in contemporary architecture’ by Ewa Wala (ISBN 978-83-7880-080-4)
4 photos published in number 30 (dossier deco) edition of the Belgian LIFE MAGAZINE from December 2015
3 photos published in INSPIRAMAIS.BR edition summer 2016 (INSPIRAÇÕES VERÃO 2016)
35 photos of Patrick Selinger’s artworks published in the ALONE book (2016)
collaborative photo project ABERTURAS with Carlos Pataca, self published book (2017)
3 works selected for the exhibition REALM, in Antwerp. (2018)