David Straight - The End of London

The End Of London is primarily about my response to the world I see. And for two and a half years it was London. These pictures are a journey through the streets; through gazes and moments, people and nature and the inherent struggle between the two. To put it simply “it’s an attempt to understand the time I live in”.

It’s the insignificant parts of the everyday that appeal to me; the abstract moments, the subtle gestures, the mysteries of the meaningless.

Photography for me is about being engaged in the world around you. It’s become my way of trying to understand by searching for the mystery that seems to dwell within even the simplest things. It’s about looking, at everything, and trying to find the invisible.

“what am I, if not a collector of vanished gazes?”
Ulysses Gaze

David Straight studied photography at Massey University, School of Fine Art and Design, Wellington, graduating in 2002.  He relocated to New York in January 2006, interning at Magnum Photos, and then continued on to London where he lived for two and half years, working on his book project The End Of London.

David is currently working on new projects in Iran and most recently in New Zealand; an ongoing photographic response to life back home.

The End of London has recently been shortlisted for the Photo Book Dummy Prize at the International Photo Book Festival in Kassel, Germany.  These are a selection of images from this project.

You can see more of David's work at www.davidstraight.net

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