Here I have found an artist called Jason Evan's whose photographs are beautiful. They are double (sometimes up to 5 times) exposed and in black and white. They are all unedited and he leaves everything up to chance. This results in these beautiful, almost abstract images, creating interesting geometric shapes and lines.
He deals with peoples relationship with place, saying 'Sometimes you visit a place and it looks too much like you expected it to. Like it does in the pictures/on the telly/in the movies. Like a feeling of nostalgia for something you've never known...' http://www.seesawmagazine.com/jasonevanspages/jasonevansintro.html
I like this idea of place; an unknown place, yet a familiar place. This is an idea I touched upon a few years back prior to a trip to New York when I asked people to give me their views on how they see America and the people of New York. Before I travelled there I obviously had some ideas of what to expect, and maybe it was these views that I actually saw when I was there, as apposed to the reality. For example when I saw a coffee shop, in my head I imagined it to be like 'Central Perk' in Friends. It probably wasn't the same.
Today I also visited the World Press Photo exhibition currently in Krakow. It opened yesterday and is on until the 7th December so I definitely recommend anyone going to see it while it's here. A lot of the work relates strongly to the topic of war that I was focussing on last year.
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