Here are some pictures I came across at Auckland's Takapuna Sunday morning market this last weekend. Strangely reminiscent of John Hinde's British seaside postcards, these were made Ediz. P. Squadrani a photography postcard publisher based in Rimini. The date 1950. If I was Hans-Peter Feldmann or Joachim Schmid I'd feel a book coming on.....
My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz
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