Brooklyn
Luke Swenson
- 32 pages, Saddle-Stitch,
- 5.8 x 8.2 in / 14.8 x 21.0 mm,
- Limited Edition of 100, Numbered
- £7
About the Artist:
Luke Swenson
* Available online from the Good Press Gallery.
Including Limited Edition Print.
Hand-made by the Artist.
8 × 10in / 203 × 254mm
Signed and Numbered by Artist.
(Limited to 15)
SOLD OUT
About the Artist:
Luke Swenson was born and raised in Washington state, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. With a passion to document this sometimes strange and ever-changing landscape under nightlight, Luke searches for moments of stillness and personal reflection in a seemingly constant place. All images are traditionally hand processed and printed by the artist.
About the Book:
"These massive brick towers that you see in my photographs are mostly all low income housing co-operatives. Since I first visited here I was drawn to these monolithic buildings that dominated the skyline. It was only later when I moved here and started learning of their social impact and history that I became interested in them as a major photographic subject. The way they fit thousands of working class families into such uniform and ridged forms allowed me to play with space, perspective and light in a much stronger way.
"But the interest went much deeper than this. A large section of modern music and pop culture today characterize these areas as being dangerous, criminal filled places, yet my experience was much different. I saw thousands of windows, filled with thousands of working day Americans simply trying to make a life for themselves. I felt that by going into these areas and documenting them, I was breaking a type of social taboo. Photographing these places meant that I could transcend their realities to shed a light upon them.
"I aim not to disregard nor disrespect their pasts, but simply to relate the experience of being in their presence. I Illuminate places of violence and age, showing them in stillness and in moments of personal reflection. By going into these areas and documenting them I felt as though I was releasing myself from their fearful intimidation." - Luke Swenson