Kristeva states we are all Other in the eyes of someone else. In a large city such as London we all experience the sense of being foreign in the eyes of an Other. These portraits depict a very small demographic of new Londoners and portray the ordinariness of being foreign in a large metropolitan city. With limited reference to place or origin the subjects in this series become representations not so much of themselves, but simply as belonging to the category of 'foreign', standing in the equally regular surrounds of their most local public park. As large populations absorb difference, the park space acts as a 'non-place' providing a relatively impartial backdrop that isolates each subject to be viewed.
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