“We cannot know a ‘city,’ only those of its places we come to frequent” ― Victor Burgin, Some Cities
The challenges of photographing a city are proportional to its size. Capturing the spirit of a metropolis like London is as impossible as ‘squaring the circle,’ which is why I decided to delimit my documentation to the particularities of my daily route, from my home to Bloomsbury’s lively squares. The series deemphasizes the importance of events, turning that attention instead to the sites where experiences take place. The writer Paul Virilio has suggested that cities have no semantic voids since everything in them is suggestive of meaning. Inspired by the Situationist concept of psychogeography, I have attempted to arrange that surplus of signs into compelling ways, unhinging them from the present, and transfiguring them into images worthy of attention that resist the normativity of public spaces.