P007 → Portals
Airport graphical photography as an exploration of liminal spaces.
35mm medium format anolouge photos of airports around the world, taken on my Mamiya RZ67, 65mm, Porta 400.
BER. 2/24
‘A permanent state of transition is mans’ most noble condition.’ -Juan Ramón Jiménez
MIA. 11/23
A work in progress. A film photography book, a redemption tale of the non-place. A moment to reconsider details of the places between destinations.
MEX. 2/24
PHX. 2/24
The airport marks an edge~ the last moments you have with a place and the beginning of another. A transition.
I’m working on my own grief right now. Often hard to look at. Difficult to accept when we receive things like death certificates or letters from lawyers.
But airports we can return to, to relive. Right? Time seems to increase in weight as more is collected in one’s life, creating a higher gravitational pull as it grows, barreling down on expectations. But maybe there isn’t much more. Maybe this is a time we must move without labored contemplation and must leap unafraid. Maybe I am already nearing the midpoint of my life. Or maybe, maybe 35 is all there is.
But when we leave an airport we do not mourn, because we feel it on our power to return again if we wish. We feel we have the power to decide wether we will return. So could agony over another’s death be so difficult because it is something we have no choice in? Something more powerful than us. And isn’t that mortality? Knowing visceraly that something is more powerful than you, no matter what you do, you cannot win. So then is grieving a somewhat forceful surrender of control? This book is about airports but its also nothing about airports. It’s about transitions, and navigating the surreal new realities of sudden change. Its about finding yourself in the spaces of coming and going. So somewhere in T5, solace and concrete and metal mesh embraces the loss.