Urban Reimaginations

Edge of Humanity Magazine

1 year ago

Photographer Steve Bennett is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the series ‘Urban Reimaginations’. To see Steve ’s body of work, click on any photograph.

Each of my urban reimagination pieces consists of traditional photographs blended into alternative visions of Boston, New York, Chicago, and Reykjavík. The images include architecture and infrastructure, as well as human and natural elements. Several major themes run through the series, including the kinetic nature of the urban experience, visually represented by vibrant kaleidoscopic shapes and patterns. Liminality also plays a role, highlighted by crosswalks and other transitional spaces. And then there’s the malleability of time and space, represented by the melding of geographically disparate scenes. Each piece serves as a portal that allows viewers to engage with the familiar in unfamiliar ways, prompting them to see their own surroundings in a new light.

Steve Bennett is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based visual artist. He began taking photographs more than forty years ago and transitioned to digital photography in the late nineties. Bennett’s visual art falls into two categories. 

The first, “the world as seen,” includes traditional candid street photographs, still-life compositions, close-up images of natural and human-made subjects barely discernible to the human eye, and expansive landscapes that inspire a sense of the sublime. The second, “the world reimagined,” consists of abstract composites that invite viewers to explore alternate realities filled with mystery, suspense, and surprise as they navigate between “what is” and “what if,” and between the predictable and the unpredictable. 

His work has been shown in numerous juried exhibitions across the United States. It has also been displayed at technology, software, biotech, and financial service companies in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

All images and text © Steve Bennett