Lonely city
Cities are built by people. City life is where it’s at. That’s where the shops, the nightlife and the businesses are. They are magnets that draw in crowds of people. Cities are getting bigger, more crowded and busier all the time. People live amidst all that hustle and bustle. And yet…
Loneliness is widespread in the city. Cities makes people feel lonely. Not connected to others. You can feel lost amongst all those buildings, all those people. So many people, yet you don’t know a single one for real.
Loneliness doesn’t necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability, for one reason or another, to find as much intimacy as is desired. — Olivia Laing
In this series, I aim to reveal that loneliness and desolation in the city.
Close encounters
We use our eyes constantly. We look to find our bearings, to examine things, to assess people, to read and to capture images. But our focus is often limited; we look the way we always do.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. — Bill Bryson
You don’t have to travel far and wide to see the beauty in things.
Join me in ‘Close Encounters’, a project in which I photographed images of things in my home (up close) from a close-up perspective.
I shot, selected and edited (cropped one shot) this project in 1½ hours.
