Made to Last
The book “Newcastle” by photographer Luke Kellett is a portrait of a city and its residents, during some of the strictest Covid-19 lockdowns in the world.
An aesthetic born during a time of emergency and constraints became a lasting way to see and talk about a city, its architecture and people. Imposing strict rules to his method, Luke Kellett compiles a visual representation of Newcastle, in New South Wales, Australia, whose power echoes past the pandemic, becoming part of the collective memory.
“Apart from personally loving the uniformity of typologies, everything around the world at the time was chaotic and unknown. Photographing this project as a typology provided some structure that I could cling on to. Pedantically obsessing over the tiny details of matching the images calmed me down, grounded me and gave me focus during a very strange time.”
The book “Newcastle” is published by GOST and available at the price of 50 Euro.
