Street

My street photography is not posed but neither is it predatory; rather it is quiet interventions,  sympathetic and reflective of the myriad of responses that people have to the built environment. Fleeting moments of serendipity and sometimes quiet pauses amongst the noise, bustle and constant movement of city life.

Sometimes in the thick of the action, sometimes detached and standing back but always looking for humanity in my response to the humanity around me. Caricature and stereotype is not the game I want to play in my city, as I am one of its participants. I respond to the built environment, my imagined city,  just like others on their journeys through time, space and place.

…it would be more accurate to think of a city as an imagined environment. This environment embraces not just the cities created by the “wagging tongues” of architects, planners, builders, sociologists  and novelists, poets and politicians, but also the translation of these places they have made into the imaginary reality of our mental life… (Bennet & Watson)