Analog photographs taken during a three-month journey through India in 1996. Street scenes, temples, transport, markets, bodies and everyday social situations appear as dense systems of relation.
This archive group brings together analogue photographs taken during a three-month journey through India in 1996. Under the reading "Social Systems", the images do not appear as conventional travel observations, but as an early visual investigation of everyday life, density, movement, work, ritual and public space.
The journey to India thus became an important field of experience. In the streets, markets, temples, traffic situations and encounters, society appeared not as an abstract concept, but as a visible order: as a network of bodies, gestures, paths, gazes, actions and spatial relations. The photographs mark an early moment in which my interest in social systems, collective forms of behaviour and the structure of public situations began to emerge.
Seen from today’s perspective, these images can be read as precursors to later works. They already reveal an interest in how people form spaces, how movement generates social order, and how individual actions become part of larger contexts. The camera is directed not only at individual motifs, but at situations in which society becomes visible as an image structure.
