THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

It is a new work, a single shot of some prefab houses skimmed on a mobile phone while driving through Utah.  The photograph registers the speed of the car racing through the landscape – and modern life – in all its random glitches and blurs. At the same time, the houses look perilously ephemeral against the ancient mountains behind them.  This fragile little thing, a spontaneous and disposable shot, is enlarged to the size of a cinema screen – a monumental homage to the mobile phone and the outsize role it plays in depicting our times.

Cumming/Gursky