STREETMAX 21
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The built environment, static and inanimate, is the stage in which a walking choreography is played out. The humans, who bring the animate, are spatially arranged as though carefully directed. They appear to have been preconditioned to act like automatons or self-absorbed passers-by uncannily acting out parts in mental isolation.

I’m looking for rhythm in moving figures and to have them separated visually within plastic space. In a landscape rendered anew by technological change, it’s the spaces between the human inhabitants that are equally likely to control the narrative. Even though I’m working in a real environment, shooting it in this way can give it an unreal look. Perhaps the influence of digital technology on the City is already illustrating the boundary between the real and the virtual world, like Goddard’s Alphaville which, through deft use of real locations, transformed a real city into a science fictional one.

Author
Born Dundee, Scotland.
Formerly, architectural and sometime press photographer.
Latterly, small business owner and street photographer.
His work has been shown in various festivals and group shows internationally. He has won several awards including being selected as the Juror’s Pick in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards in 2017. He won the Best Series award at Streetfoto, San Francisco, as well as being the series winner in the 13th Pollux Awards, Street Photography category in 2019. He has shown in a number of galleries in the United Kingdom, United States, Hungary, France, Greece, Italy and Spain.
In 2020, he became a member of the street photography collective iN-PUBLiC, and was included in its first online exhibition “The Square Mile”.

Website
https://streetmax21.com/

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