This set of photographs explores the idea of how nature is slowly reclaiming the landscape, no longer used for mining purposes, by silently swallowing the traces of man’s presence.
Archive for March, 2011
Reclaiming the landscape
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Diptychs
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The landscape I work in and the interventions I make are closely connected. A particular intervention can only exist once, in a specific position, in a specific landscape. I found it interesting to present the work as a series of diptychs physically connecting the images of my interventions to the images of the landscapes in [...]
Man-altered landscape
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Some of the locations where I made my interventions (previous post). These drastically transformed landscapes are simultaneously disturbing and beautiful to see.
Interventions
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Here in Cornwall there are many striking examples of landscapes drastically altered by man’s industrial activities. When I decided to go out and document some of these areas my agoraphobia did not make it an easy task. My first few trips ended in disaster. I soon decided to stop worrying about the photographs and try [...]
