Project Detail: This must be the place

Contest:

LuganoPhotoDays 2015 Open



Brand:

LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Valentina Casalini

Status:
Selected

 

Project Info

This must be the place

The project was realized in July 2013, in New York.

All cities leave a unique fingerprint: New York’s genetic code is tangible, visible and decomposable in streets, buildings, bridges and people. It represents the prototype of metropolis par excellence, an identification of the “New Athen”.

Every building generates peculiar visual frames, that have become widely-known symbols in the collective imagination: Times Square, Central Park, Coney Island, just to mention a few.

The project reflects the daily show provided by these urban scenarios, which have bonded with the individuals that wander and inhabit them. I would like to understand how this multifaceted reality can conciliate elements that are apparently completely opposite: elitism and pop culture, collective imagination and personal perception.

These juxtapositions are mirrored in the architectonical experimentation of the city, which is visible and spread throughout every street of New York. All corners of New York bear a significant human potential, which makes those places extremely familiar.

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