City Textures

City Textures. 2022.

Late sun slides across this wall in a Melbourne laneway, catching every layer of history that has built up on the surface. The green framed window panes are clouded with dust and spray paint, each panel a little fragment of handwriting and mark making. Beside them, old red bricks hold the same light in a softer way, chipped and weathered but still solid. The picture sits in the quiet space between decay and care, treating the graffiti, stains, and crumbling poster as texture rather than nuisance, a record of the way a city slowly writes itself onto its own skin.

50 mm • 1/250 sec • f/5.0 • ISO 125.