thomas graichen - photography


changing places

this project is a collaboration of two photographers: guy batey and me. he presents works from two recent series: "the melancholy of objects", portraits of objects lost or discarded on the streets of southwark in south-east london; and "a fragile hold", which continues this idea in studies of liminal spaces found in berlin. in my project "filling space" i'm searching for spaces in berlin in which the protagonists of my portraits can place themselves. although they seem to be completely selfcontained, they also seem to merge with the space around them, becoming a part of it. changing places would tell the story of the collaboration and dialogue between these two complementary visions of absence and presence in contemporary urban space.
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