Video: ACCESSION - city-universes, self-centered. Collages by Ben Thomas
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Big town Is an organism that develops and expands indefinitely as long as it has such an opportunity. A similar look at megacities was presented by an Australian photographer Ben Thomas in his collage series with the title ACCESSION.
Ben Thomas is already known to regular readers of our site for his love of urbanism. As an illustrative example of his previous work, we can mention a series of city shots taken with a Tilt-Shift lens. The new project from this author reveals the metropolis as an endless structure closed on itself, which grows not only in breadth, but also in height.
Some of our readers have probably watched the movie "Parallel Worlds", which takes place in a fictional universe, where two planets coexist side by side, being so close to each other that their inhabitants can even communicate with each other, being on the tops of mountains and the roofs of skyscrapers.
Similar visuals can be found in images from the ACCESSION series by Ben Thomas. In them, he showed large cities from all corners of the planet, connecting in different forms and formats with their "twins", located close to them upside down.
Through these works, Ben Thomas invites us to rethink the nature of the city as such, giving megalopolises the idea of a world closed on itself, closed and expanding in different directions. Thus, each city is a separate Universe, the inhabitants of which have often never been outside of it.
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