Peter Corbett

In my place

The people in this series inhabit a space that they are both familiar with and at odds with. With a few exceptions, they are alone and isolated within their space. Often their activities are juxtaposed by the environment they inhabit - a ragged man sleeping on the millionaire's bench or on a grassy urban bed. The child, eerie and doll-like staring blankly out at the city - unseen forces behind, a bemused figure in a teeming station, and an elderly woman bleakly contemplating spring blossom. A yawning fruit seller, his gape echoing the form of his fruit, an Indian vendor, elevated both literally and metaphorically by his space, and pleasingly superior to the lens. The series asks us to engage and understand both isolation and ownership of space, and in doing so, understand and seek meaning in the places we ourselves inhabit.