Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them. It is caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But because it sees and moves itself, it holds things in a circle around itself – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’Œil et l’Esprit Space is […]
When the city skates back: skateboarders vs. hostile architecture Read More »
Guy Debord and the Situationists would have no doubt disapproved of a typology of acts of urban resistance, or at least viewed it with suspicion. Not merely because of their distrust of analytical academic discourse, but because they saw classification itself as an act of neutralisation. To render resistance legible is already to risk domesticating
A typology of acts of urban resistance Read More »
Born out of the French Letterists’ countercultural spirit, and further developed as a discipline by their better-known Situationist successors, psychogeography originally set out to interrogate -and ultimately disrupt- the impact of designed environments on human emotions. Through playful movement across the city and its suburban landscapes, it aimed to counter the increasing commodification of everyday
Psychogeography: towards a third-wave definition Read More »
Photos uncropped and unedited, shot on a Panasonic GX80, and on a Rollei 35T
Slow shutter street photography Read More »
In his memoir Quand j’étais photographe (1900), the early French photographer Félix Nadar recounts a story about Honoré de Balzac, who was reluctant to have his picture taken due to his belief that the human body was made of numerous spectral layers, and that “[s]ince… man was incapable of making something material from an apparition,
The violence of the image: photography as a magical act Read More »
In his seminal 1967 work, The Society of the Spectacle, the French critical theorist Guy Debord defines the spectacle as “a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life”. Thus, Debord suggests, images have become commodities through which all social relations
The meme and the spectacle Read More »
These photographs were taken in the Playa del Inglés/Maspalomas area of Gran Canaria in 2025. Uncropped and unedited; shot on a Panasonic GX80.
Street photography in Gran Canaria Read More »
A series of colour street photographs taken during the night of San Juan festival in Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria, in june 2025. Shot on a Panasonic GX80.
La Noche de San Juan 2025 – Playa del Inglés Read More »