The following series of images are reflections upon my visits to Olympic sites in Montréal, Beijing and London. My interests lie in the social and cultural actions that accompany large-scale sporting events and the residual effects on cities following their conclusions.

The set below combines traditional printing techniques: stone lithography, chin-collé and photo-etching. All the imagery has been made or gathered on location. Each stadium is accompanied by a single Olympic ring, which in isolation appears like a target.

Images by Tim Vyner

Following the DesignCity event, participants were invited to post a Montréal postcard personalized with images reflecting their experience of the city. I have placed these cards in the centre of a sketchbook page that sits on a lithographic stone. Reportage drawings and ephemera collected on the streets frame the cards to create a narrative. These combined elements reflect the constantly changing and evolving aspects of a city of design and the stone lithography represents a sense of permanence. Below are two samples from a set of seven, followed by selection from my Montréal sketchbook.

Images by Tim Vyner

Images by Tim Vyner