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In Passing is a new photo-novel by artist, architectural designer and writer Mark Pimlott (Montréal, 1958) with more than 80 photographs selected from 1970–2009.

Says Pimlott, "The photographs I have made since childhood have been made in response to fundamental and fleeting perceptions that revealed the World to me. The camera seemed the most suitable device with which to capture them. I saw meaning embedded in spaces and objects: their forms held the key to understanding both the human impulse, the World, and one's place in it. Part of this belief may have been connected to the mythic dimensions of my childhood surroundings (the vast spaces of the Canadian Shield) and the Utopian atmosphere that prevailed in the 1960s in my native Montréal. The co-existence of suburban banality and Utopian futurism (represented by the city's innovative architectural developments and the parallel experimental urbanism of expo67) suggested that there was one vast environment, manifested in an array of forms. Empty parking lots were inexorably linked with airports, corporate office buildings, meandering semi-public subterranean interiors, métro cars, megastructural space frames, motorways, suburban bungalows, sylvan wildernesses, and even reconstructed historical villages. Their unity, their equivalence, their atemporality, was a plausible, authentic and exciting reality for me. These childhood impressions have remained with me, despite knowing how things are and how they have to come to be. I continue to hope that the World is available for rediscovery, for revitalised occupation."

About the author: Mark Pimlott lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands, and London, United Kingdom. Pimlott studied architecture at McGill University, Montréal (1981) and the Architectural Association, London (1985); and visual arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1992). He has made projects for architecture, interiors and furniture since 1980, and in his own practice since 1988.