The Spaces Between

The Spaces Between is a photographic publication exploring Formula One away from the racing line.

Across Silverstone and Lusail, attention shifts from competition to atmosphere, observing the architecture, movement, labour, hospitality and ritual that exist around the event itself. What emerges is not a study of racing, but of the spaces that make racing possible.

The access that enabled this work sits behind the paddock gate. From that position, Formula One reveals something different from what broadcast cameras tend to choose: the preparation before a session, the recovery after one, the infrastructure of a temporary city that assembles around a few hours of competition and then disappears again.

At Silverstone, the publication finds its register in a particular kind of quiet. Grandstands built for a single weekend. Engineers who arrive before the gates open and leave long after the crowds. The safety car completing a circuit with no spectators watching. The ratio between visible effort and visible outcome is unlike anything else in sport.

At Lusail, the character shifts. A purpose-built desert circuit under floodlights, built for 1.28 million people across a race weekend. The scale is different. What stays is the atmosphere after dark: the noise and the heat arriving together, the way the circuit comes alive in a way that a European venue at midday does not.

Across 130 pages, the publication moves between these two circuits. Not as a comparison but as a sequence. Two Grands Prix, one editorial argument: that the real story of Formula One exists in the spaces the cameras don't choose.

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The three studies that preceded and informed this publication are in the archive.

• The Spaces Between  ·  Formula One away from the racing line, Silverstone
• PADDOCK  ·  Inside the paddock, Formula One, Silverstone
• Qatar Grand Prix  ·  Lusail International Circuit, under the lights