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October 16, 2011
London based photographer Dougie Wallace has been working on a series of wonderful images made through the windows of city trams at the moment of departure in Portugal, Egypt and Eastern Europe, in cities including, Lisbon, Alexandria, Sarajevo, Ukraine and Albania.
His technique juxtaposes the interior life of the tram with the architecture and life of the city reflected in the windows:
Dougie Wallace, untitled, from Reflections On Life
The work was shown at the Format Festival 11 in March- April in Derby, England was entitled Right Here, Right Now': Exposures from the public realm, and it was curated around the theme of street photography. It explores the resurgence of street photography understood in terms of Cartier-Bresson’s idea of ‘the decisive moment’ --to observe and record candid moments on our everyday streets.
Dougie Wallace, untitled, from Reflections On Life
The images are multi-layered fractured scenes that are built around reflections in the windows of the trams and which often have a disorienting and surreal affect. There is a gesture here towards the work of Bruce Gilden in that there is a focus on 'characters' and in the closeness to the subject.
The Format photography festival, which was established in 2004, by Louise Clements and Mike Brown, is now one of the UK’s leading non-profit international contemporary festivals of photography and related media, is biennale.
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