David_Verbeek
Shanghai
The series was created out of years of constant travel and the notion that modern life is an increasingly international enterprise. Many of us are living their lives in more than one place, sometimes in many different countries, thus gathering a rich variety of (visual) impressions, at any rate much more diverse than people of past generations have been experiencing. Images and impressions of places are important to the mind. Nowadays, we are spending most of our time in dense urban landscapes and are traveling so fast and frequently that impressions from different origins get mixed in our memories and constitute a new mental landscape. How does the mind select and link these impressions and how do these constitute our own personal urban universe?
To me personally, images of the cities which I have visited during the last few years are increasingly seeming to belong together. As if my life takes place in one huge global metropolis. That is not at all an alienating or even frightening thought to me. On the contrary, at times I experience the sensation of wanting to completely submerge myself within the vast ocean of buildings. Capturing the layered reality of modern cities with always the same 35 mm lens, "Colors of the New Land" simply started to take shape. It was an unplanned process, originating from my personal, visual addiction for the urban landscapes of the new Asia.
Shanghai
The series was created out of years of constant travel and the notion that modern life is an increasingly international enterprise. Many of us are living their lives in more than one place, sometimes in many different countries, thus gathering a rich variety of (visual) impressions, at any rate much more diverse than people of past generations have been experiencing. Images and impressions of places are important to the mind. Nowadays, we are spending most of our time in dense urban landscapes and are traveling so fast and frequently that impressions from different origins get mixed in our memories and constitute a new mental landscape. How does the mind select and link these impressions and how do these constitute our own personal urban universe?
To me personally, images of the cities which I have visited during the last few years are increasingly seeming to belong together. As if my life takes place in one huge global metropolis. That is not at all an alienating or even frightening thought to me. On the contrary, at times I experience the sensation of wanting to completely submerge myself within the vast ocean of buildings. Capturing the layered reality of modern cities with always the same 35 mm lens, "Colors of the New Land" simply started to take shape. It was an unplanned process, originating from my personal, visual addiction for the urban landscapes of the new Asia.