Bedford Square

This early observational study marked a turning point in my approach to spatial research. Over the course of one day, I positioned myself at a distance from the informal corridor connecting the AA’s school buildings on Bedford Square. From this quiet vantage point, I documented how students moved through, paused in, or gathered around this in-between space—how their presence shaped its rhythm.

To record what I saw, I invented a visual language: live notations drawn directly onto paper that captured position, interaction, and timing. These coded sketches became a tool for translating movement into spatial memory. At the end of the day, I returned with my analogue camera to photograph the exact constellations I had observed—layering intuition with evidence, abstraction with form.

Bedford Square laid the foundation for my methodology: using slowness, distance, and careful framing to reveal the emotional logic of space. It was the first moment I understood photography not just as image-making, but as a way of seeing.





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