Landside/Airside
This work offers an insight into the 'super-modern' environment of airports. In the photographs individuals are intentionally caught as solitary elements in a transitory, controlled space for passage and consumption, in which time and place seem to lose meaning.
The book 'Landside/Airside' is the complete body of work. The pieces of text taken from letters/emails/signs, become the narrative elements that contrast the timeless and placeless nature of the images, and they highlight the contractual character of such 'non-places'. The title (‘Landside/Airside’) also reinforces the elements of control and restriction of airports, in which each landmark and sign create endlessly ‘off limits’ zones.
The juxtaposition between the formality of the space and the intimacy of certain shots though seem to question the experience of the 'non-place'. As 'non-places' seem to impose a loss of identity, the sleeping bodies become the counter-point for a reflection on the human experience into the structures that create these spaces.
The book 'Landside/Airside' is the complete body of work. The pieces of text taken from letters/emails/signs, become the narrative elements that contrast the timeless and placeless nature of the images, and they highlight the contractual character of such 'non-places'. The title (‘Landside/Airside’) also reinforces the elements of control and restriction of airports, in which each landmark and sign create endlessly ‘off limits’ zones.
The juxtaposition between the formality of the space and the intimacy of certain shots though seem to question the experience of the 'non-place'. As 'non-places' seem to impose a loss of identity, the sleeping bodies become the counter-point for a reflection on the human experience into the structures that create these spaces.