My work involves investigations of places around the world that i find to be layered with paradoxes and hidden narratives. The „Rubicon“ series (2005) , for instances, concerns a neighborhood which is secretly the nexus of illegal drug production and trafficking in the Gulf Coast of the United States, while the „Woollahra“ series (2003) focuses  on a former working class Victorian neighborhood that has morphed into perhaps the most expensive real estate in Australia.
I am interested in exploring these specific locations subversively by shooting only at night  a low shutter speeds and putting the threshold of visibility within  the printing process. By re-imagining the colors, and obstructing and enhancing details, I seek to create images layered with ambiguities-cinematic vignettes of places that the viewer might discover emotionally rather than geographically.
Kevin Kwan 02-2007