Specters of a non-place

Abstract

Specters of a non-place is a visual essay composed of 8 images that addresses the relationships between individuals and the city based on the concept of non-place proposed by French anthropologist Marc Augé. This essay uses the technique of pinhole photography as an instrument of perception of social relations in urban space, a way to reveal a sensitive look at the city in the midst of a society immersed in increasingly rapid dislocations and increasingly less relational spaces - the non-places. By the characteristics of its making, for being a handmade photographic process, pinhole photography raises links between the photographer and the photographed space, problematizing the issue of these spaces that do not suggest links - train and bus stations, busy streets, airports, etc.