The intention of this work is to visually, viscerally and intellectually re-introduce the audience to those moments and places of contrast and change that we have come to oversee. I have attempted to illuminate familiar spaces and places, and to write in such a way that the viewer can engage emotionally and intellectually with the everyday, the omnipresent. By re-calling attention to common place physical contrasts and polarities often diminished by dramatic digital experiences I aim to revitalise the shift from one moment to the next, from one place to the other or just a beginning to an end.

This was a 300 level assignment done as part of the Bachelor of Design Innovation at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand. The challenge was to create a 300 word photographic essay undertaking the guise of a Flaneur, to discover and respond to "an everyday." I explored the in-between, those spaces and places that join polarities. This work was exhibited in the 2013 School of Architecture and Design End of Year Exhibition and is currently under review for publication in peer reviewed journals. The audience is hopefully diverse and the work is intended to touch all those who use it.

The work discusses the need to re-introduce the connections between humankind and the physical spaces we inhabit, invade or just pass through. Believing that the 21st century reliance on the digital realm has numbed the physical experience once enjoyed in a more analogue existence I attempted to rediscover the drama and the heightened experience such spaces and places offer. Sadly we rarely pause long enough to inhale these. My hope is that the reader reconciles the images and the words of this photographic essay and begins to connect their own polarities in order to experience the journey between two points.

Inspired by the words and concerns of Walter Benjamin and Aldo van Eyck I approached this project with similar concerns for authentic experiences. I investigated through physical exploration the intimate spaces and networks around the suburban and inner city environs seeking forgotten and over looked spaces of the in-between. Constantly used by travellers, these spaces have become viewed as impotent voids between the here and now and the destination. My exploration culminated in my returning to these spaces at night. The intention was to highlight, through the dramatic contrasts available in black and white photography, the spatial qualities of these networks and to illuminate both the intimate and the public aspects of these spaces through visual experience. Drawing on Benjamin and van Eyck I then endeavoured to emulate the dramatic, yet common place qualities captured in my images through my writing.

I hope the work will become a valued part of the growing discourse that calls for a more tactile, human and fundamental response to the world we live in. I hope the methodology will be adopted by others and applied to other counterpoints; not to unite polemic differences but to encourage the experience of the spaces and opportunities that run in-between them. I have endeavoured to celebrate the difference, by seeking out and experiencing what links, tenuous or otherwise, exist in the in-between. These transitional spaces house, I believe, one of the most vital paradigms of human existence, that of change. I hope this work will encourage inquiry, if not understanding for the importance of transition, difference and change and incites further investigations of the in-between.