Photography
Urban Jungle
is about the unregulated, unraveling peripheries of Western cities and life as it unfolds there. It reveals silent traces and tells stories about the less civilized situations in which people do things just a bit differently, or have departed the area altogether and left the city to its fate. These abandoned places speak volumes about the dynamics of the city. In more and more Western cities, gentrification is pushing the last few raw spots out of the downtown districts. These cultural incubators where freedom and lack of funding produce the craziest forms of creativity are becoming scarcer and scarcer. Silent witnesses of expiration are increasingly rare.
They are there, though! I feel sincerely happy when I encounter a visually unexpected situation and am always on the lookout for it. A well-framed image of an otherwise completely uninteresting object suddenly takes on its own inherent poetry. Visual confusion and overlapping realities create a sense of excitement. The living city produces the images you look for.
These photos show that the essence of people cannot be captured by an over-structured society in which politicians, planners or legislators try to smooth out all the rough edges. Things only get truly exciting on the fringes of bourgeois civilization, where its own laws apply and different processes are in play. The recipe for indifference is a delicious mixture of filthy and fabulous, where observation tilts from expectation to amazement and the camera nips pieces from the peripheral world to preserve them for posterity.
All Epson newest generation archival printed photographs come in a small 16" x 20 " edition of 10 + 2 ap and a 30" x 40" and up large edition of 5 + 2 apis about the unregulated, unraveling peripheries of Western cities and life as it unfolds there. It reveals silent traces and tells stories about the less civilized situations in which people do things just a bit differently, or have departed the area altogether and left the city to its fate. These abandoned places speak volumes about the dynamics of the city. In more and more Western cities, gentrification is pushing the last few raw spots out of the downtown districts. These cultural incubators where freedom and lack of funding produce the craziest forms of creativity are becoming scarcer and scarcer. Silent witnesses of expiration are increasingly rare.
They are there, though! I feel sincerely happy when I encounter a visually unexpected situation and am always on the lookout for it. A well-framed image of an otherwise completely uninteresting object suddenly takes on its own inherent poetry. Visual confusion and overlapping realities create a sense of excitement. The living city produces the images you look for.
These photos show that the essence of people cannot be captured by an over-structured society in which politicians, planners or legislators try to smooth out all the rough edges. Things only get truly exciting on the fringes of bourgeois civilization, where its own laws apply and different processes are in play. The recipe for indifference is a delicious mixture of filthy and fabulous, where observation tilts from expectation to amazement and the camera nips pieces from the peripheral world to preserve them for posterity.
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