From London to Tokyo, Antony Cairns sees cities in a different light – The Washington Post

Perspective | From London to Tokyo, Antony Cairns sees cities in a different light

Antony Cairns uses experimental darkroom processes that abstract cityscapes to the point of being nearly unrecognizable, reduced to stark shapes in black and white.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/10/10/from-london-to-tokoyo-antony-cairns/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.daebcca7cce7

Antony Cairns photographs a world under construction. His use of experimental darkroom processes renders cityscapes abstract to the point of being nearly unrecognizable, reduced to stark shapes in black and white. His book “CTY” is an edit selection from various works in London, Las Vegas, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, along with six texts by Simon Baker, senior curator of photography at the Tate. The texts are prefaced with a quote that introduces a theme of urban life, describing cities with such words as “drowned,” “ruined” and “endless.”