ORIGINALLY SEALED COPY!

Background information

"The out-of-print photo volume 'Case Study Homes' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI is actually a sketchbook. Within the scope of a project in 2008, BIALOBRZESKI photographed urban structures in Manila. A shantytown between two container terminals was supposed to be the site for a few photos. After slumbering in a digital archive until the fall of 2008 and following six months of research in Asia, the time came for the artist to view the material. This happened to coincide with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers Bank and the outbreak of media paranoia about a second global economic crisis. Although even before all of this occurred a connection could be established between these images and the photographs of impoverished rural Americans commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the 1930s, current events give BIALOBRZESKI's works yet another dimension. Furthermore, they pay homage to the desire of people to make homes for themselves. The will to survive and creativity manifest in these dwellings made of the waste products of civilization." (© Hatje Cantz, 2009)

Content

The photo book 'Case Study Homes' by Peter BIALOBRZESKI, which is out of print at the publisher, contains color photos of accommodations made in Manila that consist of civilian garbage. Architectural photography is a means to an end here, in order to get to another topic by dealing with the subject of the photographs: the excesses and effects of globalization and the pollution of the continents. In addition, the images are also reminiscent of the camps of migrants and the dwellings of Calais.