Border Matters and Metaphors

Abstract

This portfolio attempts to express the expanding concept of borders, and boundaries through photographic images of objects and situations taken from various contexts, often unrelated to the geopolitical sphere. Scrutinizing borders and boundaries for the past several years as part of a funded project and realizing that borders are omnipresent and all-pervading led me to ‘see’ borders everywhere. And so, I started photographing real and potential border markers and manifestations in the urban everyday. Sometimes they refer to very manifest aspects of borders and in other cases, they are just subtle hints, or even purely metaphorical emanations, originating from a visually present reality, and purposefully framed to support the distinct notions and aspects of borders and boundaries.