Peter Fraser has created a new photographic portrait of London.

A City in the Mind takes its inspiration from Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities in which the explorer Marco Polo tells the Emperor Kublai Khan of the many fantastical cities he has visited on his travels. However, Marco Polo and the Emperor don’t speak the same language so the explorer uses objects from the cities to help tell their story. Similarly Fraser’s enigmatic photographs of London can be read as portals to another world, openings onto stories and histories, even other civilizations.

A monograph of A City in the Mind is published by SteidlBG with a foreword by Brian Dillon in May 2012.