Photography and Walking

A woman moves through Eugène Atget's photograph and becomes a blur. Everything around her remains sharp: the building, the street lamp, the posters, the cobblestones. Yet the passerby seems to dissolve into the street...

<p>A temporary circle appears on the snowy floor of a forest in Tierra del Fuego. Nearby, traces of footsteps, mud, ash, and weather quietly record the passage of a body moving through the landscape.<br/>In this...

A young boy crouches on a New York sidewalk, drawing with chalk on the pavement. Around him, rough circles and fading lines spread across the concrete. At first glance, the scene appears simple. Yet the longer we remain...

<p>A young boy crouches on a New York sidewalk, drawing with chalk on the pavement. Around him, rough circles and fading lines spread across the concrete. At first glance, the scene appears simple. Yet the longer we...

<p>In 1992, Gabriel Orozco rolled a sphere of plasticine through the streets of New York City.<br/>As it moved, the surface gathered dust, stones, fragments of metal, cracks, and countless traces left behind by contact...

<p>In 1967, Mariette Pathy Allen photographed a woman walking past a storefront mannequin somewhere between New Jersey and Philadelphia.<br/>At first, the image appears ordinary: a pedestrian, a display window, the...

<p>Episode 16 looks at a photograph made by William Klein during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City in 1955.<br/><br/>Rather than photographing the crowd from a safe or distant position, Klein moves directly...

<p>In 1985, Hamish Fulton walked for eight days in central Saskatchewan, near Ajawaan Lake. The work begins there.</p><p><br/>This episode stays with a simple shift that takes time to register. The photographs are not...

<p>In 1961, Canadian artist Michael Snow created a simple silhouette of a woman mid-stride. He called it Walking Woman.</p><p>What followed became one of the most quietly radical gestures in postwar Canadian art...

<p>In 2004, Francis Alÿs carried a leaking can of green paint through Jerusalem, tracing the path of the 1949 armistice line — a border once drawn in pencil on a map, later absorbed into the city’s streets and...

<p>In this episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe Guillaume explores Josef Koudelka’s photographs of the barrier that separates Israel and Palestine. Photographed between 2008 and 2012, the series traces the wall...

<p>When we think about night photography, Brassaï’s images of Paris often come immediately to mind — cafés, wet streets, and figures moving through pools of light.<br/>But in this episode of Photography and Walking...

<p>In 1968, VALIE EXPORT walked through Vienna with Peter Weibel crawling behind her on a leash. The city did not slow. It continued.</p><p>This episode explores feminist performance art, public space, and the politics...

<p>Photography is never neutral. Every image comes from a position, a distance, a moment chosen instead of another. Walking works the same way. Each step frames the world, shaping what comes into view and what falls...

<p>What happens when photography refuses neutrality?</p><p>In this episode of <b>Photography and Walking</b>, we step into the uneasy space between documentary and art through the work of Allan Sekula. Often treated as...