SULLIVAN, OLENA
I am a Toronto-based graphic designer and
photographer and have a great love for the urban landscape. I
spend the majority of my excursions finding beauty in the decay
and destruction of buildings once familiar, now reclaimed by
the elements and time. When people abandon a site, they leave
bits of themselves behind - books, office materials, posters,
couches, even a teddy bear - and all these items are clues to
the past, giving you an idea of what the building was like in
its heyday. I try to bring this sense of the past out in my
photography, to provide a connection with the location I am
shooting and at the same time tell a story.
On every excursion, I shoot only what I
see, trying to interact as little as possible with my
environment. My aim is to document the location within its
decay timeline, leaving only footprints in the debris.
