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In a moving key scene of the 1995 film "Smoke", William Hurt and Harvey Keitel are browsing through photo albums of thousands of images taken by Harvey's character of the same view of a street corner, every morning at 8am. Their conversation is pondering the more permanent nature of a place itself vs the daily flux and ephemeralness of individual lives inhabiting it, incl. accidental snapshots of loved ones (like William's character's wife), who passed away meanwhile...
During my London years, for 10 years I worked thousands of days on a bench in Highgate Woods, creating some of my best work there. When I found that bench, perfectly located, I too was reminded of Castaneda's concept of "finding your spot", a place which so strongly resonates with you, that you immediately recognize it when you find it. As Harvey Keitel's Auggie character in "Smoke", I too felt a strong desire to document this place each day I went there to work.
Whilst I still have to properly process these thousands of images, I found that my recent life near the A
... show moreMore about the larger project:
In a moving key scene of the 1995 film "Smoke", William Hurt and Harvey Keitel are browsing through photo albums of thousands of images taken by Harvey's character of the same view of a street corner, every morning at 8am. Their conversation is pondering the more permanent nature of a place itself vs the daily flux and ephemeralness of individual lives inhabiting it, incl. accidental snapshots of loved ones (like William's character's wife), who passed away meanwhile...
During my London years, for 10 years I worked thousands of days on a bench in Highgate Woods, creating some of my best work there. When I found that bench, perfectly located, I too was reminded of Castaneda's concept of "finding your spot", a place which so strongly resonates with you, that you immediately recognize it when you find it. As Harvey Keitel's Auggie character in "Smoke", I too felt a strong desire to document this place each day I went there to work.
Whilst I still have to properly process these thousands of images, I found that my recent life near the Alps and my rekindled passion for vintage photography processes, offers unique opportunities to extend this time horizon and create comparisons which document longer term changes humans have done to places, directly and indirectly, sometimes subtle, oftentimes quite shocking.
The approach I'm taking with this project is partially only possible due to the long history of tourism in the Alps. Because of that, there're copious amounts of research material available as reference for reconstruction/restaging: vintage postcards, photographs, brochures, maps etc.
This series will not only focus on mountains or glaciers, but also the urbanization (extreme in some cases) of alpine settlements/communities and their transformation into tourism hotspots, driving massive infrastructure projects to support these new demands and causing widespread changes to surrounding landscapes.
If you have any interesting places to propose, please do get in touch! Thank you! 🙏
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