The Moth Street photography the series is created out

the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust

If biography is a net cast upon us by family and shaped by social codes

people sit down for a moment and think about where they will be going and why

Robert Adamson

or among other things – acts as an historical moment of transition in Guidi's visual thinking

The Moth Street photography the series is created outThe Moth derives from one black and white picture that Jem Southam made in about 1983: a solitary man standing on Gwithian beach in St Ives, Cornwall. From this singular, meditative moment, the book of otherwise unpeopled, colour photographs unravels like a succession of memories, drifting back and forth through time. Over the course of 30 years, Southam intermittently returned to the west of Cornwall to explore a place steeped in marine and mining