Whilst the more obvious signs of our industrial legacy, the edifices of our industrial past, unless purposefully preserved for heritage, crumble into the landscape on which they were set or are erased by us, it is in the physical landscapes themselves that the lasting impression of this past remains.

As I walked around this site, camera still firmly in my bag, what became immediately apparent to me was that I needed to look past the remaining edifices, these buildings constructed by men, and instead focus on the physical landscape itself on which industry had left its everlasting impression.
A landscape formed by both nature and man, often out of the unwanted materials of the search for power and wealth. As I walked the 1000 km to location after location I found that what I was looking at, as well as these shadows and imprints of a past, was a likely future. A land empty of the more obvious man made constructions, but one filled with the markers of both our industrial past and, perhaps, disdain for the world in which we live.
A crevice carved out of the hills in the Pennines, a series of ridges found on a west facing slope of a Tor in Dartmoor, these are the shadows of our industrial past, the markers for future generations to be guided by.

BIO

I work on long term documentary projects, including ‘The Last Stand’ (2010-2014), ‘A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust’ (2015-2021) and my recently completed work ‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue’ (2021-2023).
My aim is to tell stories through my photography, focusing at times on the landscape itself, and the objects found within, and sometimes combining landscape, documentary, portrait and still life to portray the mass sprawling web of the histories and stories I am hoping to tell.
Solo exhibitions include those at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, Side Gallery, Newcastle in the UK.
Group shows include those at The Photographers Gallery and the Association of Photographers gallery, London, and internationally at The Athens PhotoFestival and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
My work has been published in journals and magazines ranging from National Geographic, FT Weekend and The British Journal of Photography and Raw Magazine to Wired and Dezeen.

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