[2008-9, complete]
All images are 12x16 inch silver gelatin prints, Editions of 15.
The series can also be accompanied by a 4-channel animation, either as projection or mounted LCDs. Please contact for details.
This work received 3 Honorable Mentions in the 2010 International Photography Awards and has been longlisted for the 2009 Emerging Photographer Grant (Burn Magazine / Magnum Foundation).
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Places streaming down. A place to pass through. A place to settle. A place to leave behind. A place to return to. A succession of little worlds to which I am desperate to belong and from which I am unable to extricate myself. Most fade before I can hold on to them, while the ones that won’t let go are places I don’t want to be.
Places streaming down, blending into each other. I stand in the midst of them, but the moment I turn my head they become distance; distance whence I can safely destroy them. And then at the point where everything starts to vanish, everything starts to come into being.
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This project is a visual essay on the possibility/impossibility of a meaningful connection with a place. The language adopted is not one of memory, but one of detachment and not-quite-being-there. In the process, it in a way seeks to replace the traditional narrative of travel, where the protagonist is on the move from one location to another, with a more psychological one, in which places are willed in and out of being, with various degrees of success, by the protagonist who is ‘static’. As the series progresses and the picture fades, this burden of conjuring, and the resulting frustrations, is left more and more to the viewer, who is increasingly pushed to become the central character.