urban notebooks
I am a photographer, I go to places I don't know and follow people around.
I use photographs to investigate meaning in the modern constructed urban environment. Theorists say that we can find meaning in cities through everyday practices, that people in the course and movement of their everyday lives define the spaces that they use and inhabit. This is what I pursue: the meaning of place created through our quotidian spatial practices.
Without reference to maps or books, people in cities become my guides. Following strangers as they go about their everyday life, I am led to the subjects of these photographs. No-one is followed for long, not long enough for me to become concerned with them as an individual. I am concerned with the places they reveal, acting as a collective set of city dwellers who define their city and show it to me.
The work is a product of chance encounters within the rigour of a framework I set for myself. It is a contiguity of fragments, each one extracted from its moment in the course of someone else's life. Through these photographs we are taken to the place where meaning is created - somewhere between the marks made by official histories and the daily footsteps of individuals.”
links to view photographs:
warsaw: a notebook
palermo: a notebook
download pdf sample here
urban notebooks
I am a photographer, I go to places I don't know and follow people around.
I use photographs to investigate meaning in the modern constructed urban environment. Theorists say that we can find meaning in cities through everyday practices, that people in the course and movement of their everyday lives define the spaces that they use and inhabit. This is what I pursue: the meaning of place created through our quotidian spatial practices.
Without reference to maps or books, people in cities become my guides. Following strangers as they go about their everyday life, I am led to the subjects of these photographs. No-one is followed for long, not long enough for me to become concerned with them as an individual. I am concerned with the places they reveal, acting as a collective set of city dwellers who define their city and show it to me.
The work is a product of chance encounters within the rigour of a framework I set for myself. It is a contiguity of fragments, each one extracted from its moment in the course of someone else's life. Through these photographs we are taken to the place where meaning is created - somewhere between the marks made by official histories and the daily footsteps of individuals.”
links to view photographs:
warsaw: a notebook
palermo: a notebook
download pdf sample here
