Hans Eijkelboom in conversation

The product of several months of painstaking research around the Bullring centre, The Street and Modern Life is the latest in a series of projects by Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom.

“The process is simply that I walk to the centre of the city where many people are. Then I walk around for 10 to 15 minutes. When something in the crowd intrigues me or touches me, I decide that will be the theme of the day. Then I start photographing…”

The product of several months of painstaking research around the Bullring centre, The Street and Modern Life is the latest in a series of projects by Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom, all united by an interest in globalisation and the fabric of everyday life. In Eijkelboom’s early work the photographer himself became subject, particularly in a series called In de Krant where he (successfully) set himself the challenge of appearing in the background of his local paper’s front cover image for ten consecutive days. Today he’ll be talking to Emma Chetcuti from Multistory about how his approach has evolved since then, and what drew him to Birmingham’s streets.

See The Street and Modern Life at our Gas Hall hub from Weds 20th until Sun 24th.