Interrupted landscapes

“At night, I photograph on empty outdoor subway platforms.” A series, that of Daryl-Ann Saunders, which was created almost as an instinctive reaction to the brutality of the attack of 11 September 2001, but then expands and deepens over the years in other cities (Shanghai, Boston, Atlanta …). “I usually shoot above-ground, not underground, because showing the close proximity of the subway platform in relation to the surrounding community introduces a powerful theme that I find interesting - that of machinery vs. humanity.” A search in which the New York based photographer uses her expertise to “re-combine” and therefore reconstruct reality through architectural photographs that shape a new landscape, which, paradoxically, is defined at times by transient elements such as the movement of machines or harsh fluorescent lighting of the metropolitan, rather than by the buildings or other perimeters of the city. In doing so, she provides an original, yet imaginary, interpretation on the tenuous and vulnerable relationship between transit systems and “their” particular communities.

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© Courtesy of Daryl-Ann Saunders

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