EDGES OF THE CITY (Netherlands, 2004-2008)
What does a space say about the people who move about in it? In EDGES OF THE CITY Martin Luijendijk photographed the private spaces in which professionals do their work, at moments when their users have stepped out temporarily. These specialised, functional worlds form the edges of the metropolitan world. The tranquillity of the images – apparently theatre sets during an intermission – contrast with the complex networks of which their users are a part. In CONTINUATION Luijendijk records buildings that are just ready to be delivered, or demolished – in a way that the distinction disappears. There is no history, no future, no progress and no decline.
