Urban Mashup brings together a loose body of altered photographs made from fragments of urban life, architecture and landscape. The works come from an earlier period and do not form a single defined series, but share an interest in recombining encounters with the city into something less fixed and more abstract.
Hipstamatic was important to this period of work as an extension of an increasingly in-camera approach. Rather than spending long periods processing photographs on a computer, the aim was to make more of the decisions while out shooting, using multiple exposures, lens effects and recombination to alter the image as it was made. The Salvador lens was central to many of the works, while others experiment with the handheld lens and different forms of distortion and layering.
The works move between urban observation, architectural distortion and altered landscape. Buildings, streets, signs, containers, trees and passing encounters are mirrored, layered, stretched and recombined, sometimes remaining recognisable and sometimes breaking apart into pattern, geometry and more ambiguous constructed spaces.
Urban Mashup is presented as an open collection of this earlier work, with individual posts allowing particular images or groups to have their own space. It is not an active series, but neither is it closed: further work may be added if something from the archive, or new work that connects with it, calls for a place here.