HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO THE CITY'S EDGE?
We travel through them on our way to work, choose to live in them, do our shopping in them: the new urban landscapes are part of our lives in one way or another.
Tristan Fortin Le Breton, photographer:
“In the beginning, we planned to use an old photographic process to portray derelict lots and wooded areas at the fringes of recent urban developments. Poetry resonated in these spaces as they lay, lacking a clear purpose, awaiting imminent development.
Ten years may have passed by before I revisited these same places, allowing my large-format camera to absorb the reality of the architectural sprawl spawned by the appetite for capital. These generic spaces, these border areas, are expressions of our prosperity. They were developed to respond to our needs for instant gratification and represent the ideology of economic growth at any price.”
