"She wrote it down and kept returning to it, consumed by the ideas it evoked of mapping feelings and place, and the correlation between geography and experience - a kind of emotional cartography. At the same time, she'd been thinking about psychogeography and the practice of exploring our environments guided solely by subjective impulses and the desire to generate chance encounters and uncover hidden histories and memories."
""I wanted this grand title, which is such a vast, all-encompassing concept: how we make sense of space and distance. I kept coming back to the idea of geography as the study of people in their environments," Sicher explains, talking from her New York home. "The book is a mapping of time, bodies and spaces. There's no fashion work in here, there are no hired models, it's all people that I was very close to, or am very close to.""
The phrase 'the geography of the human heart' framed an exploration of mapping feelings and place, linking geography with lived experience as emotional cartography. Psychogeography and chance encounters guided the creative practice and informed sequencing choices. The photobook Geography compiles 168 photographs from a personal archive into an intuitive, non-linear arrangement that maps time, bodies, and spaces rather than following chronology. The images include intimate, uncensored portraiture alongside atmospheric landscapes and span fourteen years of image-making, including photographs taken at age sixteen. All sitters are people personally known to the photographer rather than hired models. The book is published by Dashwood Books.
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