“Skies of Concrete”: Life in Leftover Spaces – The New Yorker

“Skies of Concrete”: Life in Leftover Spaces

Gisela Erlacher’s photographs explore pockets of human activity crammed and wedged beneath towering bridges and roadways.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/skies-of-concrete-life-in-leftover-spaces

The Austrian architectural photographer Gisela Erlacher first became interested in life in the hidden crevices of urbanized landscapes after discovering a house that had been built between two bridges in her native city of Vienna. For her series “Skies of Concrete,” which is the subject of a new book out in February from Park Books, she travelled within Austria and to the Netherlands, Great Britain, and China to find other pockets of human activity crammed and wedged beneath towering bridges and roadways