Psychogeography is used as a name for an approach which plays on the idea of ‘drifting’ around different locations/environments. 

Tom Pope said that he used psychogeography when taking his images. When Pope was going to different places wherever he was he would always bring his camera, and there so if he was inspired to take a set of images he was always ready to. As Tom had a film camera he usually only had 12 chances to take the image that he wanted, which would be completely up to chance. The environment which Pope was in would inspire him and give him an idea for a photograph and this is what Psychogeography is, it is being inspired by the urban landscape that you are in. When Pope would think of an idea he would set up his camera and then he will just start taking the images. 

These photographs show at different times in Pope’s photography how he was inspired by a location and took an image, to take these images he would use a button which he could hold in his hand so he could press the button when he wanted the photograph to be taken, this was to test whether the idea of chance worked and if the image turned out good or not.