Dream Wall, Belfast, photographed by Lucia Gu
02ImagesPhotography as visual fieldwork

Looking is a
way of mapping.

01

Topophilia

Yi-Fu Tuan’s “affective bond between people and place” becomes a way to read photographs of attachment: landscapes, habits and small visual details through which space acquires feeling.

Tuan, 1974 ↗
02

Topophobia

The inverse current: fear, estrangement or spatial unease. Tuan’s landscapes of fear include both threatening environments and the dark imagery produced by the mind.

Tuan, 1979 ↗

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