I have always been fascinated by cities. Through the years, I have understood more clearly that this fascination has stemmed not only from urban fabric itself, in its collections of constructed forms, solids, and voids, but rather from the fact that cities are inhabited. They are narrated. They are lived. They are experienced.
Urban settlements are our common home. They are inseparable parts of our story - of our multiple stories, of our multiple truths. They are the sites and theaters of our struggles, our conflicts, our reconciliations, and of our greatest cultural achievements. Cities are mirrors of our humanity, at the same time as cities are often mirrors of our many brutal inhumanities.
The fragments of urban life and experience that form this collection should be considered as testaments to our interconnected world of multiple cultures and identities, as confirmations of our shared humanity, and as promises, contrary to the winds of isolationism and hate that are howling loudly, that our spirit of mutual support, respect, and love will prevail.
Sparta, Greece
037° 04' 16.8" N 022° 22' 04.1" E
18 April 2006
Cairo, Egypt
029° 58' 42.6" N 031° 07' 59.2" E
08 November 2006
Alexandria, Egypt
031° 12' 13.2" N 029° 54' 20.5" E
09 November 2006
Savannah, Georgia
032° 04' 44.6" N 081° 05' 30.9" W
03 March 2007
Santa Fe, New Mexico
035° 41' 13.5" N 105° 56' 17.6" W
21 April 2007
Denpasar, Indonesia
008° 39' 26.6" S 115° 13' 07.1" E
23 July 2009
Barcelona, Spain
041° 23' 42.7" N 002° 09' 42.2" E
21 October 2009
Cairo, Egypt
029° 58' 51.2" N 031° 08' 03.6" E
19 October 2010
Alexandria, Egypt
031° 17' 21.9" N 030° 00' 55.1" E
21 October 2010
Alexandria, Egypt
031° 12' 48.3" N 029° 53' 08.5" E
21 October 2010
Cairo, Egypt
030° 02' 45.0" N 031° 15' 45.1" E
22 October 2010
Memphis, Tennessee
035° 07' 57.7" N 090° 03' 31.5" W
15 January 2011
Venice, Italy
045° 26' 00.9" N 012° 21'08.4" E
09 June 2011
Venice, Italy
045° 25' 56.0" N 012° 19' 31.3" E
12 June 2011
Stockholm, Sweden
059° 19' 30.0" N 018° 04' 13.8" E
09 October 2011
Basel, Switzerland
047° 33' 47.4" N 007° 34' 58.6" E
13 October 2011
Basel, Switzerland
047° 33' 25.4" N 007° 35' 25.3" E
14 October 2011
Athens, Greece
037° 58' 42.5" N 023° 42' 58.0" E
18 July 2012
Trondheim, Norway
063° 25' 41.5" N 010° 24' 06.6" E
14 October 2012
Hamburg, Germany
053° 33' 21.6" N 009° 58' 57.9" E
20 October 2012