Danish photographer, Thomas Damgaard’s Figures and Cityscape leapt at me when it loaded on the screen. He spent two months earlier this year in Bangkok working on the images.
Damgaard on the series:
I wanted to make some figure studies of the young urban class in this city, people in between actions - the pause in the everyday where we have a change to reflect on our lifes. I liked the idea of describing this personal space and time that people can have during a short absence and set this in contrast to the dynamic Asian metropolis that is in a state of constant flux and growth.
To me, the images were about the pervasive isolation, fear and hopelessness surrounding us; unable to move as fast as the cities that we live in.
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (”Figures and Cityscapes“)
© Thomas Damgaard, 2008
After spending the past week struggling with school and having the entire financial crisis unfold before my eyes, the series spoke to me of our lives’ craziness.
See more of the series here. Damgaard is also part of an art collaborative, New Weather Group, which had their first exhibition last year in New York’s MoMa.
great work ! but don’t quite get such juxtaposition.