Human landscapes of geographical difference are thus created in which social relations and production systems, daily lifestyles, technologies and organisational forms and distinctive relations to nature come together with insitutional arrangements to produce distinctive places of different qualities. Such places are in turn marked by distinctive politics and contested way of life. Consider, for a moment, the various ways in which all these elements hang together in the place where you live. This intricate physical and social geography bears the imprint of the social and political processes, as well as active struggles that produced it.
David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital
This project was produced as a submission for the 4th edition of Westphoto Photography Prize, a competition organised by the University of Westminster for their students. It didn't win anythng or even get included in the exhibition.I decided to publish is nevertheless.
As far as the subject is concerned, I have become interested in the discipline of geography. Geography understood in a way, which is quite accurately described by the quote above. I was trying to examine various aspects of a border seen form the perspective of such geography.
I was also trying to figure out a few things about making photographs. Things like relationship between text and image, form and content, art and the world outside. Big words. I was trying really hard not to make good images and the lack of any success in the compteition attests to the success of that.