An Invisible Hand gathers Stephen Roucher's street work made between 2012 and 2022. In an era when modern technology offers precise navigation and ubiquitous street-view convenience, locations are catalogued and made explicit through coordinates and addresses; commerce and progress drive those technologies, shaping our environment and our perception of it.

Roucher invites us to consider a machine-driven perspective from another era, working in black and white with a view camera — a cutting-edge technology of the nineteenth century that radically reshaped how the world was seen. He catches the urban landscape not with the precision of contemporary tools but with an eye for the timeless and the unseen: the nuances of public space, the rejuvenation of forgotten corners, and the artefacts of once-daily technologies now obsolete.