Artist Statement

With one and half billion passengers moving through 1,195 international airports per year, the buildings have been designed and built for transit. They may not all look the same but one thing that connects them is the people who use them have a shared intent - they all know they're on their way to somewhere else.

These images convey this sense of transit and explore the complex relationship between humans and technology. The huge increase in global movement has made the airport the perfect place to explore where, how and why we travel.

'If you were asked to take a Martian to visit a single place that captures all the themes running through the modern world - from our faith in technology to our destruction of nature, from our interconnectedness to our romanticising of travel - then you would almost certainly have to head to an airport. Airports, in all their turmoil, interest and beauty, are the imaginative centres of our civilisation.' 1

1 'A week at the Airport'. Alain de Botton by permission of United Agents Ltd. 

Artist Bio

John Angerson’s work explores the different languages of documentary photography. His images are concerned with changing cultural landscapes and address definitions of community - focusing on how specific communities form, shift and develop. His critically acclaimed personal work has been exhibited at major art institutions and he has worked across the world on photographic commissions for a variety of international publications.

For further details please see http://www.johnangerson.com/