REPOSITORIES
After Schles had finished off his now famous photo book “Invisible City” (1990), he settled in the East Village, in New York City. It is a neighbourhood of heroine dealers, artists plodding away toward a breakthrough that never comes, squatters, immigrants and other lost souls. Over the course of time he saw familiar residents disappear as a consequence of AIDS, drugs or careers. In their place came yuppie residents – with money. In REPOSITORIES Schles recalls memories of the East Village before the metamorphosis. He can not make time stand still, or prevent the departure of friends, but in the photographs he can give shape to his feeling of that era. It is a series on the meaning of a personal environment and the value that the smallest objects can possess.
