"In a Place Like This" is a collaborative on-going research initiative between Johan Sandborg and Duncan Higgins. The main research question is taken and expanded from the work explored through unloud (Higgins) combined with Sandborg’s artistic research into photography and Place Identities: photography as document and the condition of photography as a construct for social memory.

"In a Place Like This" sets out to investigate and expand the issues and critical discourses within our current collaborative research practice. The central focus for the research is concerned with how art, in this instance photographic and painted image making and text, can be used as an agent or catalyst of understanding and critical reflection.

Of central concern is the questioning and re-positioning of: actualising archives - painting - memory embodied - trans - historical narratives of place - constructed or reconstructed histories of place - interstitial places or "non-places" - transitional zones.

The ongoing archive of the project can be found at www.inaplacelikethis.com