‘The frontier house‘ is a series of landscapes and interiors documenting the environments of new housing developments and retail spaces that spring up around most of the world’s larger cities.
About ‘The frontier house’:
The photos in this series were taken in Britain and the US, but could as well be elsewhere as they resemble on another, such as the market forces in developed nations follow the same rules.
These are landscapes that are created like mass products, driven by profitability and functionality. They become the default environments we live in. The beautiful, the sublime is elsewhere – in national parks, in movies, in theme parks. This is how we live.
Because of their industrialised nature, these spaces will not create any form of history or belonging. Cheaply produced, with a total disregard for longevity or sustainability, they will disappear as soon as they have created the desired profit.
People who live there will not long to go back, they live in houses that appear to have some historical veneer but they don’t actually create history, they simply fall apart and people move on.
There is something self-consciously tragic in these images, precisely because of what they represent. It is not just the cheap goods that keep markets functioning every day but it is indeed the landscape itself that has been taken over for profit making.
The landscapes mirrors our economic system and will shape the way we live.
These landscapes are our lives.
