In February 2000 I stayed one week in Manhattan with my Photo Art class from Great Britain, where I studied for my Bachelor’s degree.
This was the second time I visited New York, both travels including a lot of attention to the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers which I was very fascinated by. This second time I also focused on the many other -both known and unknown- buildings dominating the cityscape.
My intention at that time was to make a series that highlights the anonymity of these city spaces with the project “Unidentified”, reflecting some kind of alienation as seen from a distance. I shot several films walking the streets, as well as from the upper floor of the Twin Towers and from the ferry to Liberty Island.
Although the anonymity of the city reflected in the photographs still remains as a reality now, and perhaps even more with the pandemic, the series is most of all a document of how photographs may or may not change over time- though sometimes it changes radically. Going through these images again 23 years after, I find it hard to see them as other than icons of what was the typical American cityscape of New York.
35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
Pedestrian walkway connected to WTC 7. 35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
View from observation deck, South Tower, WTC. 35mm film, February 2000
Twin Towers architecture as seen from ground. 35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000
Pedestrian walkway to WTC 7 as seen from street. 35mm film, February 2000
35mm film, February 2000