Leo Whitehouse's work documents the 'Nonplace,' a term coined by Marc Augé to refer to spaces of transience where the human becomes anonymous, and which cannot be described as 'places' by the anthropological definition due to their lack of significance.
Subway tunnels, elevators, shopping centres, and highways... It seems that most of the world is now made up of Nonplaces—byproducts of supermodernity and the spatial practices of capitalism, where soil is buried beneath concrete.
In Nonplaces, you are only allowed to follow certain paths dictated by an all encompassing bureaucracy, as your movement, gestures, and bodily acts are subject to surveillance. Sunlight is blocked and only shadows remain.
The individual becomes a blank slate with a barcode.
The nature of the Nonplace is an expression of the contemporary lifestyle, increasingly obsessed with panoptic control and security, and characterised by conformity and paranoia.
