KINGS CROSS STATION

Eventually, serendipity pays off. I was experimenting with cross-processing and I found that somehow it contributed to a new spatial distribution of reality. The narrow three stop band of light to play with, and the blown off highlights seem to redistribute people within their surrounding environment; it creates a new perspective.

The line of visitors queuing at the arrival gate at Kings Cross International station, seemed to interlace, move around and form patterns. People assembling and splitting up as if engaged in the mysterious dance of an ephemeral tribe formed unconsciously.

People sitting and waiting at the station seemed lost in time and space, as if their time and reality was stretching compared to the travellers passing by, and rushing to wherever they were going. Their own perspective seemed to stretch out.

Following on this idea, I find it that perspective is not just spatial, it is temporal also. And the two are intimately interrelated. One’s perception of perspective and one’s connection with its spatial environment is linked to a notion of time.
It does take time to stop and look around to appreciate the space and surrounding of a location. All the same, a person deep lost in his thoughts can forget about time and all externalities, and find oneself in total disconnection with its environment.

As a photographer, this connection and disconnection of people within the space affects in return the perspective that is being pictured.