No terribly coherent project here, more a repository for recent travel images that I like but for which I haven't (yet?) found a home. They seem to complement each other more than I would have thought.
I was concerned that Stockholm in February would be too dark, cold, damp, and dreary even for my taste. But she who must be obeyed insisted that I accompany her on a lecture tour. Right she was, of course. What little light there was was beautifully soft and melancholic, and the weather turned out to be unseasonably mild.
The New Orleans images are from a break during two architectural shoots, one in May 2009, and one in February 2010. With little time to spare, I tried to get an impression of the extremes of the city four years after Katrina. What ties in this short series with my other recent work are the ambiguities of the landscape, the tensions between growth and decay, orderliness and chaos, civilisation and nature, hope and despair. Much of it is in the details, such as the weeds growing from a bathroom drain, mowed grass to assert property claims in a wilderness, an electric meter lost in a meadow.
The Rome images are from a week's vacation in January 2009. I look at them as emotional antidote to those from New Orleans.