Introduction

The images we see – all that is visual, thus sensual and influential – create our world as we know it. No wonder Berger (1972) suggested, “Seeing comes before words”. But words must come with the sight; they complement the visual world, together with sounds, smell, touch. They make it a human world. That is what we believe, anyway, it is ‘our’ world – we take it as is, we make it as it is. And we are a mere part of it – the insects of the urban hives that thrive in an artificial environment. We are attacked by images, overcrowded by experiences, strangers among strangers wandering the streets and the deserts of the Western reality.

This is my way of seeing, neither right nor wrong, not to be taken as the only interpretation of anything that I attempt to interpret.

* Berger, J. (1972) Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Books Ltd.