Photography
Familiar Geometry
Personal
Finding the architectural logic hidden in everyday scenes — the lines, planes, and angles that organize how we move through the world.
What was happening
The built world has a grammar.
Familiar Geometry started as a response to a problem: how do you photograph environments so thoroughly photographed that they no longer register? The answer, it turned out, was to focus on the structure rather than the surface.
The series isolates the geometric logic of ordinary spaces — walls, shadows, thresholds, edges — and asks whether the familiar can be made strange enough to be seen again.
David’s role
Geometry as a form of attention.
The images were made slowly. Most locations were visited many times, at different hours, in different light. The work is a record of sustained attention more than discovery.
What makes a line interesting is not the line itself but the relationship between lines. Familiar Geometry is an argument about proportion, ratio, and the quiet intelligence embedded in the spaces we inhabit.