Violette Franchi

“Our models have to be a complex, ongoing, spontaneous interaction of observation, understanding, imagination, and intention.”  (Stephen Shore)

Topographics is an ongoing study of walking, of taking one step more, two steps less. These images made since 2015 across Europe and the United States stem from an intention to depict current urban landscapes’ heritage from a few decades back, confronting past ideals to modern eyes.

The series gather photographs of vernacular architecture, seventies large scale housing, praised modern houses from the thirties, or out of use car culture buildings. Composed with an idea to seek for each place’s identity, Topographics uses a narrative mostly free of people to reveal our modern society through built spaces.