The winter of 2009-10 was the harshest I have experienced. For more than 2 months the temperature didn't make it above -5°. It snowed almost every day. It was hard, oppressive, and truly beautiful, and evoked feelings that reminded me of stories from my early youth, like memories resurfacing at a forgotten scent.
Inspired by Eugene Atget, I used a 9x12cm plate camera to photograph the city landscape of Berlin. i documented both one of the hardest winters on Berlin record, and the terrible transient beauty of a continental winter next to which the grey damp days of the UK pale in comparison. Like Atget's, the subjects of these photographs were corners of a city forgotten in the flux of modernisation. The choice of archaic large format analogue technique also examines the changing face of photography in an increasingly digitised world of image making and consumption.
