How to Photograph Eternity – The New York Times

How to Photograph Eternity (Published 2018)

In his photographs of East London, Chris Dorley-Brown achieves the near-impossible: marrying past, present, and future in a single frame.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/magazine/how-to-photograph-eternity.html

There’s something not quite right about the photographs in Chris Dorley-Brown’s book “The Corners” (published by Hoxton Mini Press). The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there’s a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state. I’m referring not only to the people in the pictures; I’m also describing the effect induced in us, the people looking at them. And when I said there was something not right about them, maybe I meant the exact opposite: something too right, eerily ordinary.