My photographs (which are documentary, not digital manipulations) illustrate the accidental, premeditated, random, and fleeting ways that a city’s inhabitants – from installers and city workers, to protestors and graffiti artists - often respond to commercial messaging. Once an image is released from the safeguards of the corporate photography studio into the unpredictable, capricious topography of the city, the inherent tensions between commercial mythology and urban reality begin to surface. My interest lies in documenting the many ways in which the city can sabotage corporate ads. By capturing these collected alterations, my pictures read like a visual call and response between commercial parables and the actual lives unfolding around them and as an expose of corporate advertising’s infiltration of private life and thought. (Parts of this statement were excerpted from an article about my work by Mija Riedel in TAKE on Art Magazine, New Delhi.)
