The absence of human #8 employs desolate cityscape photography from elevated vantage point, transforming vibrant urban center into ghostly terrain. Rey's top-down composition reveals city blocks and intersections as abstract geometric patterns when stripped of their animating force: people and vehicles. The work highlights how modern cities exist as programmed environments designed entirely around human congestion—without inhabitants, these spaces become monuments to absence, exposing underlying urban chaos only visible through its removal.
 
Programmed Human is a photographic project that aims to subvert the conventional perception of a bustling modern city. Through a series of cenital landscape photographs, a desolate urban sprawl is revealed, stripped of the usual rush of cars and people. The juxtaposition of emptiness against familiar urban landmarks creates a surreal setting. In this deliberate depiction of abandonment, the project highlights the chaotic and congested symphony that typically envelops city life but often goes unnoticed. The absence of human activity in the images represents the ultimate paradox. By removing the typical visual and auditory markers of a crowded city, the project exposes the invisible layers of noise and disruption that permeate our urban existence.
 
The absence of human #8 desolate cityscape photography transforms vibrant metropolis into ghostly geometric terrain. From Programmed Human. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.