Laurence Bonvin

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Aletsch Negative

Chacabuco

Gotthard Super Express

Post Tōhoku

Passing Revisited

Passing II

Passing I

Ulundi

In & Out

Blikkiesdorp

No Dumping

Ghostown

Freizeit

Berlin-Marzahn

On the Edges of Paradise

Istanbul Peripheral II

Istanbul Peripheral I

As a One-Eyed Little Owl

Koghuf Revisited

Girls ‘n Boys

When I Look At You

East of Eden

Everyday is Today

One World

 

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Ghostown

Ghostown, Madrid, 2009. 72 x 90 cm, inkjet prints, aluminium

In 2008 a huge financial crisis hit the world and Spain was not left out. Its real estate market collapsed in a matter of days. In a country that had banked on the housing sector to lead its economy, this meant catastrophe. I photographed around Madrid in various new neighbourhoods, some popular, others more exclusive. Everywhere I found the same scenes of sadness and depression: destroyed landscapes, aborted construction sites, vast, vacant newly-built neighbourhoods, unsold apartments, abandoned roads and infrastructures in places where no public transport, no city life, no shadows were to be found. While working on this series of photographs I found myself questioning the future: what will become of these contemporary ruins ? Where do we want to live and in what kind of city?

 

 


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  • Musée Rath, Geneva

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  • Ghostown
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