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Commuter Motions

Peter Ydeen
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Year
2023
Language
English

About

From blurred roads, buildings, and underpasses appearing like fading hallucinations, to a cacophony of traffic seen twisting through the windshield of a taxicab, commuter motions gives us a series of motion blur urban landscape photographs that embody the energy surrounding our highways, bridges, and cities. Taken along the eastern end of the Interstate 78 corridor, this series tells the story of a commute. It documents an oscillating movement between the Pennsylvania city of Easton, through New Jersey, and into midtown New York City. The physical and experiential geography maps the places and activity between these two landmarks, and through movement, the series confronts the fixity of the photographic medium. It introduces
the variable of passing time in an attempt to capture the urban landscape that is, by its nature, ever-changing and ungraspable. Each photograph absorbs an energy and vibration that we experience daily as we travel to our cities, and though fully immersed, it is an energy we rarely perceive.

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