Archive
What we will become
What We Will Become is a photographic exploration of the faces of workers across France, photographed within the sites and gestures that define their daily labour and craft.
Inspired by the seminal photographer August Sander who created a monumental body of work, “The People of the Twentieth Century”, that attempted to map German society through an extensive series of portraits, recording the powerful changes made through the technological advances of his time.
Now with AI right in front of us, Craft and Labour will become something very different,
With the use of repetition, return, and precise observation, a contemporary typology develops, as well as an acknowledgement of both vulnerability and continuity, this series works as an act of recognition, foregrounding the presence of those whose contributions quietly sustain the fabric of the city in a world where AI, robotics and humans intersect.
An archive of our present in transition.
