PHOTOGRAPHY. SHAPED BY IDENTITY, CARE & CONNECTION
Originally an academic module project, the Johnson Fold Notebook is presented in the style of a reporter’s notebook and the reader is taken on an organic, meandering sequence.
Drifting through the Johnson Fold Estate, I became Charles Baudelaire's "flâneur" - an observer without direction, letting the place reveal itself in fragments, experiencing while making my own written notes to accompany imagery.
Inspired by the notion of wandering and Henri Lefebvre’s belief that space is shaped by those who move within it, I wanted to capture not just a place, but the quiet traces of life within it.
Community is more than a location - it’s a rhythm. A routine. A shared experience. At first, I saw only neglect, but as I walked, I began to notice the details that breathe identity into these streets: the shuttered shops that still serve, the pathways worn by repetition and the overlooked corners that hold memory.
Without portraits, the spaces themselves become the storytellers, hinting at the people who pass through them.