Street Reflections, Sydney 2020–2025
These photographs were made on the streets of Sydney between 2020 and 2025, in the years when glass became the primary membrane between interior and exterior life. Shot through shop windows, reflective facades, and the curved surfaces of found objects, they are not photographs of glass but photographs through it — the city refracted, layered, and transformed by a material that promises transparency while quietly bending everything that passes through it. What appears distorted is, in its way, more honest than what appears clear.
Street Reflections No. 2 (2020) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 7 (2023) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 1 (2020) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 8 (2023) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 3 (2021) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 4 (2021) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 5 (2021) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 9 (2023) by Stephen Lambeth.
Street Reflections No. 6 (2021) by Stephen Lambeth.
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