The Bridge Project
By Nick Turpin
4 Oct 2008
A public space is like a stage, a set that sees a continuous stream of dramas, for years I have photographed these happenings with a small unobtrusive camera, quietly stealing poignant moments. More recently I have decided to meet the actors, selecting interesting strangers in the streets and isolating them from the crowd for a few minutes in order to shine my interrogating lights on them. Each series of pictures is a social survey, a photographic census of a place or a type. The 'Bridge' series is made on a bridge over London's river Thames, an exposed location that gives no cover to my subjects who find themselves isolated like microbes on a microscope slide. We don't expect to be singled out in a city the size of London, I am sure everyone I approach thinks they are about to be mugged and in a way they are.
3 responses
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Brandon +) gave props (25 Oct 2008):
Wonderful potraiture series!
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Paul Miyamoto gave props (9 Feb 2009):
very cool. love the clouds as a backdrop!
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! Johan Conradson gave props (9 Apr 2009):
Simple idea which inspire me to do something like this! :) Thanks!
