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Always Let the Road Decide _2008

Dubai contains new architectural sites and tourist
attractions designed (or being designed) to direct
visitors on visual journeys. Many locations are
made visible by highways. Walking is discouraged;
roads become walls, boundaries, and lines to be
navigated-alienating pedestrians.

These photographs taken from the series,
'Always Let the Road Decide' explore how
migrant construction workers who have limited
social rights of use in the city independently
access these busy networks.

Climbing onto the road allows participants to
dictate the pace of their collective movements
and create informal meeting points or spaces
within a hostile environmental climate-cityscape.
Establishing unique social-spatial imprints that
challenge the city-states architectural ambitions.

These images form part of a body of photographic
work that considers how leisure spaces are visually
represented in this city; everyday-unregulated
activities and micro spatial practices that take
place during workers limited leisure time in or
around the built environment.