Berlin: the emerging present (2017)

Six images of transient spaces and transitory states in Berlin.

Becoming is always in the present. It is the counterpoint of all time; both the culmination of all that has passed, and holding the potential for what may be. The present is banal, ephemeral and characterised by a constant emerging and falling away.

Here the transient spaces and states are presented as layered, in progress and emerging, as the images shift between being obscured and having moments of clarity. The images are conspicuously unoccupied, and yet all show inherently distinct markers of human presence. They are both awaiting occupation and heavy with echoes of past occupation. Berlin’s present is characterised by a uniquely enduring potential which attracts people’s hopes and expectations to be constantly further overlaid.