Following my previous photographic series of Constructions and Spaces, a work of two years which documents construction sites in Europe and reflects on sustainable development, in my new photographic project I continue to explore the notions and characteristics of urban and natural landscapes. My proposed project is exploring the concept of temporality: all that is transitional, that exists only for a certain period of time.
I document sites and phenomena that determine the visual appearence of our environment: a kind of visual junk that occupies an eternal place in our urban life. Our relationship towards the spaces we occupy and share have changed: we no longer care for what surrounds us.Though cultivating and maintaning a healthy environment is our responsability…
It might be a commonplace, but „temporary solutions” sometimes last forever.
Illegal wastedumps are a permanent phenomenon in suburban areas of big cities, as well as empty house plots, abandoned billboards and buildings, closed down shops, junked cars and furniture that seem to belong to no one, makeshift shelters of homeless people… Our cities are full of „temporary” visual waste that transform the appearance of our urban and natural spaces.
The series is made with my 500 CM Hasselblad camera with a 80mm Planar lens, and Kodak 120 colour negative film.