Portrait of a familiar place

A project focused on a canal stretch near to my home. Landscape and portrait based study.

Latency

Latency; Defined as “the state of existing but not yet developed”

The word latent is often talked about in film photography as the image contained on the undeveloped film. I want to take it a step further. Latent for me is a scene waiting to be discovered, it has its own “Latency”.

The series seeks to explore tension and mood using composition, situation and light.

Land Marks

This project is my exploration of Stoke on Trent. A place that I have known growing up, it has memories and family connections to me

This series places these industrial remains into the context of today's landscape. It sits in the pasts of many families around the area but often no longer as a means of work or identity. 

The kilns and industrial buildings that are the areas past identity are largely left as derelict sites. Some of the structures are listed as architecturally important, they however await attention. Possible redevelopment, certainly repurposing. They represent a past that has been left behind remaining as land marks..