The New Yorker, April 2, 2012
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN: ART
MARTIN ROEMERS
Roemers’s photographs of Cairo, Mumbai, Manila, Karachi, and other densely populated cities are made from an elevated position and over a brief period of time. As a result, people and vehicles effervesce or streak through the scene, leaving static elements like pushcarts or storefronts to anchor the chaos. In Jakarta, a wedge-shaped phalanx of motorcyclists waits at an intersection as a bright ribbon of traffic zooms by. But the activity in many of Roemers’s streetscapes is primarily pedestrian—a crush of citizens who appear as ghostly bits of fabric swirling around sidewalk venders’ displays like unharnessed energy.
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