one block

choose ONE block and document it for ONE hour.
place: Philadelphia downtown
time: lunch time

Today I read this phrase: "The city gives one the feeling of being at home. We must take the feeling of being at home into exile. We must be rooted in the absence of a place"

I feel my images are about that. About home(less) and exile, place and absence, connection and loneliness in this new global order where tradition, history, speed, poverty and technology co-exist in the same level creating a new order of complexity. The human tension is on the streets, in the faces, inside each gaze. Brain and memory are accelerated trying to follow the dramas of the future, yet struggling with the remote ancient history reflected in the glass of skyscrappers while our image is capture into surveillance cameras. Our world is now linked, we are all connected, says the cell-phone advertisements, one of the biggest industries of the world global market. So, why are we so alone here ? What are the internal effects of the speed of our time ? what can we do with those parts of us that do not show up on screens ?