Oliver Godow

Oliver Godow’s poetic, incisive photographs observe fragments and details of urban spaces and objects and reveal how environments are adapted through use. His work demonstrates a fascination with the way the unregulated, rich surroundings of cities provides a ground for people to make interventions both by choice and necessity; adapting and transforming their environments both in public and in private. Godow’s images offer access to fragments of the world that we struggle through and brush past on a daily basis. Their quiet melancholy is often met by a wry smile, a delight in the anthropomorphic qualities of architecture and the potency of a detail isolated and identified.

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