Exploring space and place, and how place is defined has always been an integral concept within my photography. In this series I have considered how space is used and how place is defined by its contents, focusing particularly on apartment blocks. As well as exploring the outside form of these flats, I have also turned them inside-out, bringing the interior outside. The fragments of objects in everyday living spaces present a question of how social class can possibly be defined by the ownership of objects and decorative choices in domestic environments. Through photo montage on Photoshop I have created fantasy architecture using photographs of original images of flats, manipulating them into exaggerated versions of themselves and over-emphasising their purpose within an urban space. The amalgamated layer represents personal use and defines the individuals that occupy these spaces; in that, while they are identical in layout they have transformed a generic space into their own place.
