In this ongoing series, I am exploring the relation between the interaction of man-made spaces. The wokr unflods urban landcapes that are both banal and absurd, revealing the uncomfortable results of their relationship.
These spaces—decayed, unsettling, mundane—are invested with the strangeness of Marc Augé “non-places,” which are characterized by their transitory and impersonal nature. The spaces photographed are: under motorway brindges which are heavly tranzitional but also forgotten becoming sterile passing areas, or forgoten and decayed structures.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s reflections on Atget’s photographs, the work rejects romanticized ideals and instead documents the ignored and hidden aspects of urban life: the dirty, depressing, or dull elements of the urban man-madeinfrastructure. These images seek to explore the psychological impact of increasingly alienating urban environments, offering a reflection on humanity’s uneasy coexistence with its manufactured surroundings.
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This work is a part of my ongoing project I started in 2023 see blog post:
I am planing to make a book with all this work even though Im progressing slowly. Sometimes slow is good as it gives me time and space to reflect and analyse. It can work against the work, too, if too slow. Or is it just an excuse for procrastination? Anyway this is where Im with this work.
I then started playing with sequencing the old work with the new, and I made these posts on Instagram. I am running out of space on here, so I will post direct links to my Instagram with the sequences I made and tested
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I used a technical camera to make this. It is a Cambo camera with a digital bak. I use the digital back to "scan" the lens projection. The images are then blended together into one. The process is slow, I have to setup a tripod, find the right settings for exposure, decide the right framing and angle.
