A few years ago I read a book by Marc Augé called “Non-places, an introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity”. After reading it I began to make a series of photographs of places and experiences described in the book, supermarkets, cinemas, airports, places of commerce. I feel that there are forces that necessitate the construction of certain types of architecture, where high volume consumption and engagement with the architecture needed to be simplified. Could a huge international cinema industry survive without multiplex cinema complexes? It probably could but it needs the multiplex architecture to facilitate this. Where large crowds of people could be accommodated and the same film showed simultaneously and repeatedly.

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