The Weather

In 2008 I spent a few months in Portugal. I had a base in Lisbon and travelled the country by car with a map but never a clear destination, photographing the landscape I encountered. My eyes were drawn to signs of a fatalistic approach to life and its adversities, the ever lasting inequality of society and a culture of making do.

In Europe, with an overall good level of wealth and education, we have been feeling safe and sure to have put struggle and inequality behind us. But as global economic, demographic and environmental shifts bring destabilisation, we Europeans become aware of the vulnerability of our situation.

About the Artist:

Laura Braun is a German born, London based photographer and maker of photographic books. She completed her MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College in 2005. Her work has been exhibited in the UK, Germany and Spain. In recent years she has been commissioned by The Photographers’ Gallery, London for a part of her long term project “Trade” as well as for the gallery’s “The World in London” project to coincide with the London Olympics 2012.