Andy Day

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Andy has been photographing parkour, buildering (climbing man-made structures) and urban exploration for twelve years. As participant-observer, his work examines the body’s relationship with the built environment, wilful misuse of architecture, subversive practices, reappropriation of space and place, edgework and social interaction. He has just completed his MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths University.

FORMER documents a series of deliberately apolitical yet provocative interventions into forgotten and unforgotten World War II, communist-era monuments scattered across Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia. Through collaboration with parkour practitioners from the region, these sites were discovered and playfully explored, challenging notions of historicity, memory, memorialisation and monumentalism through the intervention of bodies that are radically out of context.