As the world is now it seems that the future we once imagined is already past. Just ask Martin Becka. He has photographed Dubai as though it was a ruin, the last monumental trace of some vanished civilisation. It is a kind of photographic archaeology, hoping for a glimpse of the way history will render our lost present. This impossible city becomes something outside of time, using the studied techniques of a 19th Century master to expose the grotesque ambition at the heart of late capitalism and what Dubai has come to represent. All empires have an inconvenient way of ending, sooner or later, this work stands as an eloquent requiem (and yes, indictment) for an increasingly failed age.
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