Innsbruck is part of Ed Fairburn’s series of map-based portraiture. The portraits emerge by following the contours of the topographic signs. He usually draws with a pencil to follow lines of elevation, altering the grade and pressure to change the tones. «Here – he states – I’ve instead highlighted the contours in ink, altering the thickness of each line to show the figure.»
Ed Fairburn, Innsbruck, 2014