Florence: Split Seconds Photography by Abe Kogan

Florence, the city said to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, is a culturally rich, architecturally magnificent, and scenically stunning backdrop for Abe Kogan’s skillfully rendered black-and-white photography. His images capture Florence’s enduring beauty in vivid portraits of modernism juxtaposed with ancient relics. Kogan’s strikingly evocative images showcase bustling Florentine street life as well as atmospheric images of the city’s parks, streets, and buildings. These dramatic photographs explore and celebrate the ageless appeal of Florence and the rich diversity of its inhabitants.

Abe Kogan is an international entrepreneur, as well as a writer, photographer, FIA Historic Formula One Class A champion racing driver, and film producer. His latest film, Matra Racing—The Rebirth, directed by Christian Dixon, is now in worldwide circulation. Kogan is fascinated by time and change and is on a unique mission to photojournalize a sequence of countries and cities, each for their particular attributes within the nature of time and change.