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a selection of photographs from the series
links to the books:
warsaw: a notebook // palermo: a notebook // prague: a notebook
I am a photographer, I go to places I don't know and follow people around.
I'm interested in how we get to know a place, in how place comes to mean something in our modern constructed urban environments. Some 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. So as I follow people, this is what I pursue: the meaning of place created through our daily spatial practices.
I visit places that I'm not familiar with. Without reference to maps or books, people in cities become my guides. They stop me from going my own way, from being guided by a road layout, or signpost, or any of the other ways that we find our way. It's like a Situationist's technique for subverting our everyday. In a way, I'm creating the conditions for serendipity to happen. I don't exactly know what i'm looking for, but following these strangers as they go about their everyday lives I am led to the subjects of these photographs. I don't follow anyone for long, not long enough for me to be concerned about them as an individual. Instead I'm interested in the places that they take me to, acting as a collective set of city-dwellers who define their city and show it to me.
In the end the work is a product of chance encounters within the rigour of a framework that I set for myself. It is a contiguity of fragments, each one observed and extracted from its moment in the course of someone else's life. Through these photographs we are taken closer to the place where meaning is created; somewhere between the marks of official intentions, their histories and our daily footsteps.
** warsaw: a notebook and palermo: a notebook are now sold out
** you can buy prague: a notebook here - link to karamboo books
a selection of photographs from the series
links to the books:
warsaw: a notebook // palermo: a notebook // prague: a notebook
I am a photographer, I go to places I don't know and follow people around.
I'm interested in how we get to know a place, in how place comes to mean something in our modern constructed urban environments. Some 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. So as I follow people, this is what I pursue: the meaning of place created through our daily spatial practices.
I visit places that I'm not familiar with. Without reference to maps or books, people in cities become my guides. They stop me from going my own way, from being guided by a road layout, or signpost, or any of the other ways that we find our way. It's like a Situationist's technique for subverting our everyday. In a way, I'm creating the conditions for serendipity to happen. I don't exactly know what i'm looking for, but following these strangers as they go about their everyday lives I am led to the subjects of these photographs. I don't follow anyone for long, not long enough for me to be concerned about them as an individual. Instead I'm interested in the places that they take me to, acting as a collective set of city-dwellers who define their city and show it to me.
In the end the work is a product of chance encounters within the rigour of a framework that I set for myself. It is a contiguity of fragments, each one observed and extracted from its moment in the course of someone else's life. Through these photographs we are taken closer to the place where meaning is created; somewhere between the marks of official intentions, their histories and our daily footsteps.
** warsaw: a notebook and palermo: a notebook are now sold out
** you can buy prague: a notebook here - link to karamboo books
