We humans are influencing the environment and altering the earth's surface according to our needs and that best reveals itself in the shape of cities. They inspire me to study how time, man and man-made space intertwine. For half a decade I have been dedicating myself to this longterm work in progress: documenting urban scenes in various cities around the globe.

The aspect I always find myself coming back to is the human scale – a term coined by Danish architect and urbanist Jan Gehl and mostly associated with discourses in architecture and urbanism. It mainly relates to urban space and describes our physical proportion to the built environment.

How wide are the streets of a city? What is the average height of buildings? Does the city have public spaces where people are given the possibility to gather and to socially interact? Are distances walkable? How do we humans create and share urban space and how does it in turn affect our condition and behaviour?

Robert Herrmann is a visual artist and architectural photographer based in Berlin, Germany. He works at the interface between architecture and art. A recurring theme in his visual works is man-made space, its ordering structures and its effect on the natural environment as well as the human condition.

For more information, visit: www.robertherrmann.com
Interview with Robert Herrmann here