Cityscape

The street is a stage set of everyday life, the backdrop in which social identities and practices are played out. This series joins documentary photography and manipulated photography to explore the similarities and variations in human behavior across cultures. People and buildings from distant locations are merged to create fictional scenes that are composed of dozens of individual images. These juxtapositions challenge the notion of photography as being a depiction of a specific moment in time and space. When viewed at the large scale, the work describes structures as a study in architecture, symmetry, angles and edges. The consistent perspective and formal composition of the photographs facilitates exploration of the dense concentration of visual information.