JFK

Laurent Malone & Dennis Adams

On august 5, 1997, Laurent Malone and Dennis Adams walked non-stop from downtown Manhattan, across the Williamsburg bridge to jfk airport. They followed the straightest path possible toward their destination, crossing neighbourhoods, expressways and cemeteries. The walk took 11 1/2 hours. Adams and Malone shot photographs along their route according to an agreement to produce an undetermined number of paired images: one 35mm camera was shared with the understanding that either person could take a photograph of their own choosing at any time during the walk. When this occurred, the person who shot the photograph handed camera to the other person, who then shot a second photograph in exactly opposite direction, with no attention given to subject selection, framing, or adjustments in aperture and focus. This book contains the complete 243 paired sets of photographs in the sequence in which they were taken.