“Break Spots” glimpse into the marginal spaces and personal landscapes of the Everyday. The images depict locations visited by workers on a daily basis for a coffee, a cigarette, to scroll through their phone or simply, to daydream. Photographed without people, the images nonetheless evoke human presence through the visual traces of an individual’s imprint on a place of work. Each photograph illustrates haphazard, makeshift spaces that become the personal landscapes workers create at the margins of institutional, industrial or commercial workplaces. Transitory, often ignored, break spots are visual expressions of the everyday among the underrepresented, an often-overlooked infrastructure common to most workplaces.
Photographed while walking about different cities, the images in“Break Spots” explore a relation to urban workspaces. They depict the inventive ways in which staff and labourers carve out a liminal zone, a personal landscape, within the confines of a place of employment—be it simply an ad hoc coffee tin turned ashtray strapped to a fence or a reclaimed cafeteria chair placed in the sunshine. These spaces represent more than a space where workers go to take a break, they express the ways in which the marginalized actively produce and claim these landscapes. As such, the break spot is owned, personalized: it becomes political.
As the camera captures the workers’ imprint against a background of uniformity and banality, the images of break spots expand the ways we can think about the boundaries of everyday working society. They suggest a narrative that lies beyond the frame, the untold stories and communal make-shift systems of workers who leave poignant physical traces at the margins of industry, commerce, and institutions.
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