METROPOLIS

2017-2022

Alastair Whitton’s work has taken him to various cities across the globe. In particular he has made several trips to London, Paris and New York. These world capitals have been documented by celebrated photographers extensively over many decades. His ongoing project ‘METROPOLIS’ represents his homage to these iconic cities and offers the viewer distinct, and at times unexpected, views of the architecture, interiors and streets of these celebrated capitals.

a FOREIGN LAND

2014-2019

Alastair Whitton’s photo narrative ‘A FOREIGN LAND’ is essentially a portrait of his hometown of Cape Town, a city with a complex history. These constructed images, made over a period of six years, consider the mechanisms of memory and the mapping of geographies in a Post-Apartheid democratic South Africa.

glimpse

2010-2014

GLIMPSE is primarily a series a photographic ‘portraits’ of objects and landscapes from a personal collection gathered and carried over an extended period. These images function as commemorative markers and explore the notion of the photograph as memorial. The evidence of a life, this collection of photographs chronicles aspects of love and loss, memory and geography and is essentially a meditation on transience and the passage of time.