Marco Barbieri says about himself:
“I am an Italian/Czech photographer based in London. I have a keen interest on how urbanism, politics and religion end up shaping the lives of people.I focus on documenting how these forces affect the daily routine of the population and how, at the same time, life inevitably tends to go on as usual.”
About ‘Post Modernity’:
Postmodernity is a photographic essay shot in medium format in South Korea where I concentrated on the main two cities of the peninsula: Seoul and the harbour city of Busan.
As a concept, Postmodernity does not occupy a clear period of time: some think it started after the second World War while other push the starting point at the end of the 20th century. On the other hand, a recurring element of postmodernity is the fact of being opposed to modernity. Where the different movements making up modernity had progressiveness in common, postmodernity is more difficult to define: It is fractioned, non linear and made of many forces that sometimes move in different directions.
Cities like Seoul are uncontainable multinodal organisms that defy any attempt of definition. They seem incapable of functioning in any linear or autonomous state, they are chaotic and eclectic. This visual essay is an ode to that complexity.
