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A Month in the City

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Chelsea, New York 2025

A Month in the City is an essay composed of photographs and words

Following a month long vacation in BedStuy, New York in 2025, frankssson arrived home to find a copy of A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr left behind by the couple he’d swapped flats with for the month. On reading, Carr’s sublte and deftly elegaic prose, he found himself taken with the synchronicity of the novel’s narrative and his own experience of a month in New York City.
       The latent thrust behind this essay is the artist’s attempt to organise and sift out a meaning behind the murmeration of thoughts and feelings conducting his everyday experience. Using Carr’s book as a jumping off point, frankssson gently explores Carr’s themes of nostalgia,  longing, and desire, set against our modern compulsion to photograph everything we behold in a seemingly endless stream of autopiloted actions. Compelled by Susan Sontag’s, On Photography, and inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s écart, frankssson’s photography aims to question gently, whilst never answering fully.

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