Robert Pollidori is one of the world's most acclaimed photographers of human habitats and environments.
He likes to capture the qualities of beauty, stillness and contemplation that come from working with a large format camera and using slow shutter speeds.
He thinks of rooms as metaphors and vessels for memory. - Places marked by the signatures of lives, past and present.
Sometimes these signatures are private; Like the image below, which involved taking pictures of apartments in New York's lower East Side, shortly after their tenants had died.
Whereas with this image, it was part of a series documenting the devastation both inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant and in the nearby plant and in the nearby town of Pripyet.
(Zones of Exclusion, Steidl, 2003.)
Both of these images, document a location with relevant items that are no longer in use, due to some form of devastation, which has affected the area.
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