NON-PLACES
In 1992 French anthropologist Marc Augé coined the term "Non-Places" to refer to a location that has no reference to time or place. It's a place where nobody wants to be, where you can be anonymous but want to spend as less time as possible. Examples of non-places would be gas stations, hotel rooms, airports and shopping malls.
Just like Augé I avoid making value judgments on non-places and look at them from the perspective of an ethnologist who has a new field of studies to explore. To me, an abandoned gas station must be the ultimate manifestation of a non-place; an empty passage from point A to B.
KOEN COLPAERT
I'm Koen (Ghent, 1970), a Belgian based photographer with a weak spot for urban exploration. I have 2 beautiful children and try not to take myself too seriously . Heavily influenced by the likes of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candida Höfer, Robert Polidori, Marchand & Meffre and David Freund I take a rather technical and documentary approach in my work.
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