On Friday, 15 November 2024, at 6.30 pm at the CAC Reading Room (Aušros Vartų g. 5 / Pasažo skg., Vilnius), a photographer, writer and professional book producer Matthew Harvey will present his recent publication Future Estate, published by Roma Publications.
Starting out nearly fifteen years ago from the local environment of offset printing plants in southern China, he began documenting a wide range of geographical, infrastructural and economic sites knotted together across the planet. The photographs show how places are organized and disorganized by commodity production and development, by zoning practices, extractions, labor and large-scale capital investment.
‘Future Estate’s’ particular conception and editing echo Harvey’s conceptual approach to photography, in an attempt to open up new ways to grasp interdependent physical, political and architectural processes. The publication also includes a personal text that reflects on how macro-economic processes have impacted a personal subjective experience of attachment and social concern having grown up in southern Appalachia, a coal-affected region in the United States.
Through a public presentation of the book and its reflections on complex issues of visual representation, the event invites a discussion on the uneven processes of global labor, distribution and consumption, the changing social context of a post-globalized world, and how such processes are lived with and responded to under varied historical conditions of local economic engagement.
Title image is from Matthew Harvey’s book Future Estate