STREETMAX 21
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As a street photographer, I take an observational view of how our present circumstances govern our behaviour individually and in crowds. Progressively, we appear to interact with each other only on a synthetic basis. We attempt to mass connect with the aid of modern technology, but in so doing pay less attention to individual connection. In an age wracked with anxiety and uncertainty the codes we see, hear and read impact upon our behavioural processes and ultimately isolate us.
At a time of artificial intelligence when it becomes harder to discern what is human and what isn’t, the isolation of these figures in my images serves to emphasize an unreal and robotic formality. Often uniform and uninteresting in themselves, they retain about them, through motion and flux, a force field which maintains a tension with others. They appear to act out prescribed scenes against the backdrop of an increasingly designed environment.

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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