The photographs shown here are part of a larger project about the scale and beauty of the Earth and of what we build on it: mountains, deserts, coastlines and open skies, but also monuments, stations and concert halls, captured in wide, spacious frames. People appear in these images, but only as small figures, often alone and far from the camera.
The contrast is intentional. A photograph usually puts the person at the centre and treats the surroundings as background; here the relationship is reversed. The images raise simple questions about scale and our place in the world – about how briefly we pass through landscapes that were here long before us and will remain long after, and through structures that outgrow the people who built them. And yet neither the figures nor their shelters and paths are lost in their surroundings. Being small in front of something this vast is also a way of being part of it.
