Several people have mentioned that the cash machine photographs are reminiscent of a form of contemporary archaeology. There is an amusing story of a study group analysing the stratified remains left in the back of a Student Union minibus. I hadn’t thought of this myself, though the concept of documenting something, unselfconsciously, over a long period of time, like time-lapse, I do enjoy. This process could be seen as a form of geological study using photographic records and ongoing time, rather than groping about many centuries in the past. A New Wave of Archaeology studying what is around us now, or documenting what has just been lost whilst it is still warm in the popular memory. Double flip, could this concept be taken into future time?
