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For many people, street signs reflect a
certain degree of sameness and so are regularly dismissed and overlooked by
passers-by as mere indicators of place.
Our photo-essay, however, seeks to effectively challenge these commonly
held perceptions and thus has sought to present these commonplace and largely
uninspiring objects in a new and interesting light. In doing so, we decided to focus primarily on
the various ways in which street signs can be captured in terms of light,
texture, decay as well as highlight their unique placement in different
locations. Moreover, we attempted to
inject these inanimate objects with an element of life by photographing them
from various angles and perspectives.
As our photographs were largely captured in
the inner city area and eastern suburbs of Sydney, they subtly reflect the
changes in various socio-economic and cultural areas. Therefore, whilst some of
the photographs depict a certain degree of rawness and imperfection others are
evidently more polished and have been preserved by local councils. As well as
providing us with these textual contrasts, travelling to different city suburbs
enabled us to document how street signs are presented in an array of colours
and forms.
All in all, our photo essay titled ‘Urban
Connections - StreetSCAPE’ aimed to transform and thus elevate the somewhat mundane and
lifeless character of street signs so that they had the capacity to capture and
challenge the reader’s imagination – and in essence, illustrate that there is
indeed, beauty in the bleak.
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