Bertrand Cavalier - Permanent Concern - Spector Books 2024

The photobook Permanent Concern consists of a series of smartphone photographs that Bertrand Cavalier took in the Netherlands in 2021. The objects and situations that he portrays are often recognisable and ordinary: from a plastic table to a brick wall blotched with paint or a girl’s skipping rope. The full zoom used by Cavalier reveals—in much the same way as his presentation of the photographs as monochrome laser prints does—the inherent structure of his subjects and how, as 'foreign objects', they break with the original order. In this way, Cavalier emphasises the various aspects of urban planning, including among them the unintentional, the 'mishap', which he characterises as a quality that allows room for a subjective and personal use of the cities in which we live.

120p - 27x20cm - softcover - sealed