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Here Over There Photographic Series has been published in Polar Inertia, Issue 35, Winter 2010. Polar Inertia, a journal of nomadic and popular culture, is an outlet and a resource for on going research into the networks that define the contemporary city. The journal began with the idea that an understanding of the urban condition requires immersion into the technologies and instruments that have molded the growth and image of the city. Using Los Angeles as a primary research laboratory, Polar inertia works under the belief that by exploring and documenting the infrastructure and land use patterns we can begin to understand the contemporary and future city. The research in the journal provides a basis from which to explore the potential for alternative proposals for urban development informed from the daily realities of the city.

Here Over There is a photographic series of straight-on portraits of hotel beds that began on the island of Chiloe, Chile, on December 23, 2002 and continues to this date. Working in a documentary style, so neutral in emotional values that is almost anthropological, I photograph the beds I sleep on during my travels with consistent parameters—the image is taken as soon as I awake, on the first morning of my stay, with the available light, with a hand held camera, and from the same point of view—my height. I am interested in creating a typology of the visual vernacular of the tourist industry. This extended essay of photographs generates a stretched-out sequence of images that present a more complex picture of a particular society, industry and location.