Cityscape 1st place winner

As the title suggests, this project is centred on the concept of civilisation. We have come to understand civilisations as complex urban structures in which human populations are delineated and stratified along socio-political and economic lines. While civilisation is most often understood as the harbinger of stability and security, it is also seen as the epicentre of order and power. It offers a means to centralise, domesticate and culturalise humans by means of creating vast cities and networks in which we live and through which we move. As a result, the built environment came to be the epicentre of a larger drive towards refinement and progress, with the outline of the cityscape etched out against the horizon becoming a prime visualising tool for imagining the life of the modern human.

ZAK VAN BILJON

Born 1981, Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Zurich.

EDUCATION

2001 Cape Town School of photography
2003 National College of photography - RSA

EXHIBITIONS

2008 Blickwinkle Switzerland
2016 Photo 16 - Zurich
2016 Tournemine Gallery - Gstaad
2017 Month of photography LA - MOPLA
2017 Der 4te Raum - ZURICH