Archives for 2007

In this tv report they still wonder if it’s a meteor shower, but now we now it was the remains of a Russian SL-4 rocket disintegrating as it re-entered the atmosphere.

“What is the face of London, New York, Paris? What does a Londoner, a New Yorker, a Parisian look like?
The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalization on identity.
The large metropolises of the world are magnets for migrants from all parts of the planet resulting in new mixtures of peoples. What might a typical inhabitant of this new metropolis look like in one or two hundred years if they were to become more integrated?

The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find this face by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and compositing their faces to create a typical face. What we get is a new person – a mix of all the people in that city.”

The above example is from Amsterdam. Click on the pic to see all the 100 individual photos that made up the composites.  What’s striking to me is the resemblance between composites of Amsterdam, Sydney, Buenos Aires, London ..etc.   Instead of different national characteristic, I see a lot more commonality.  The Composite World Citizen .  

Of course it has a lot to do with picking the location: Sydney, for example (not this one) has two sub-location, one being Sydney University, which, in the artist’s words is “a veritable United Nations. Out of about one hundred people I photographed there must have been over 30 nationalities including Ugandan, Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, American, Canadian, Bangladeshi, Egyptian, Greek, Italian, German and English.”

Here are the cities covered so far.  If you have a camera and a little time, you can get your city included, just contact Mike, the artist.