EDGELANDS - a series of colour photographic print-works. w660mm x h530mm
Land is more than physical landscape and essential environment. It has a symbolic importance. It has value, landscape and its embedded human property is physical, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual.
The “Edgelands” are a kind of wasteland, an interface between natural and synthetic. These areas are neglected, often forgotten landscapes, considered unusable, overlooked, undefined and unattractive.
Photographing over an extended period in the East Midlands England – transport conduits, abandoned industrial sites, reconstructed landscapes and partitioned urban tracts form the source material for a set of images.
The underlying strength of the work comes from its engagement with basic human issues of our position in the landscape – where and how we belong.
The digital image is observational, more akin to record-making whilst the pinhole image is reactive, interpretive, and expressive. The digital camera produces images that are more controlled and ‘composed’ – they are in the tradition of topographic survey and contrast significantly with the pinhole images.
The works are a limited edition of 8 plus 2AP. Works are accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
