Showcase: Empty, but Occupied – Lens

Showcase: Empty, but Occupied

In empty buildings, Magda Biernat finds human traces. Nadia Sussman reports that she looks for the soul in the built environment.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/showcase-130/

In the stillness of empty buildings, Magda Biernat finds human traces. While cropping out location and context, she looks for the soul in the modern built environment.

“I’m always drawn to spaces and structures and compositions that are void of people,” Ms. Biernat said. “It’s an intuition. It’s something that I see and I have to get.”