gaps in the pavement
These photographs are part of an ongoing exploration of ecotones, a series
which developed out of a fascination with the places where the concrete
meets soil. After years of wandering the peripheries of several large urban
areas, I have begun to think of cities as living, breathing organisms.
The mechanisms of the city are often underground, fenced off, or located
out of the way of city centers. I sought these places out and chose to depict
them from the perspective of the natural landscape where urban infrastructure
and detritus look alarmingly out of place and imposing. These are photographs
of a landscape under siege - meditations on the mesh of human society and
nature that exist woven together.
Michael Itkoff
www.michaelitkoff.com
