How does urban resilience relate to sustainability? Can we bounce forward after a disaster when everything seems to condemn us to bounce back? Is vulnerability really the opposite of resilience?
The series “Urbanities” shows two photographic stages for a given urban space where the sense of vulnerability, hazards and disasters are significant. The first (DO) is the initial image illustrating an urban scene. The second (D+) is produced from the argentic paper pre-cut in the dark room. Some parts will be chemically treated with fixing or developing agents at a given dilution and time. Others will remain untreated. The various parts are reassembled in the darkroom before being printed and exposed to daylight, resulting in the D+ image. The way the darkness evolves in time with D+ will highlight the challenges posed by the level of resilience of the urban space in comparison to DO.
