about“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.” - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
This is the story I wish to tell, I want to draft rough suggestive charcoal rather than faithful realism. Those visions from the city are often dark, but amongt the loneliness of vagrancy there is mystery, and in mystery the poetry of what lies outside the inferno.
I've long been interested in all sorts of visual arts but it wasn't until I moved to the city that I got an almost pressing need to photograph, I was aware of the impermanent nature of things and felt I needed to leave a trace before they forever disappeared, somehow. The Invisible Cities is a visual journal of life in the city.
I find myself most attracted to the tradition of straight photography, the documentary and cinematography genres also inspire me a great deal.
