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Project Description

TRANSVOID - is a series of portraits of individuals sheltering in their vehicles at snow covered parking lots in British Columbia. Together with my family, I lived in the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada for some years. A place without grocery stores, electricity, phone, television or neighbors. Weeks would pass without seeing anyone. We became a crowd of four when our baby Sid was born. To get to the nearest town, we drove almost three hours one way through mud, snow or ice.
I started photographing other people who had to spent lots of time in their vehicles. A Native family from a first nations reserve going to town on Friday. A priest giving a sermon in a small church in a remote valley. A couple who couldn’t afford the rent of their apartment anymore and were now actually living in their car. A guy slowly dying on a parking lot. A guy traveling to see his sick brother on the other side of the continent.
The time spent waiting interests me, the void between point of departure and destination. In TRANSVOID I regard the vehicles as solitary domains in time and space.
This series has recently been awarded first prize for portrats / series of the World Press Photo 2010. In 2009 I was awarded First Prize for Fine Arts/Portraiture of the Sony World Photography Awards for a selection from this series. In March 2010 TRANSVOID will be on show at "A Positive View" - a group show with Richard Avedon, Henry Cartier Bresson, WIm Wenders and others in Somerset House in London, UK.