Leybourne Grange

It's Late afternoon and the sun shines through small holes in paper covering the window, the dust trickles through the streams of light and lands on the broken floor.

much of the house is in such a way, peaceful, discarded and decaying. In such places can be found humanities legacy.

Grain Tower Fort

A couple of photos From grain Tower battery Fort, constructed in the 1850's and later upgraded to accommodate bigger guns, the fort is now unused and for sale.

Layers

Each layer that man creates is ontop of the previous and below the future, this broken layer show intersections between the three past present and future posibilities.

Perspective

These photographs have been put together because the lines within them and the shapes made are rather interesting.

Monuments 2

This is the final piece for the monuments work, in the previous piece I used two images that showed the decay of our civilisation, in this piece however i'm using a monument from the past in conjunction with what our civilisation might leave behind.

so once again....

As our Civilisation progresses it seems increasingly obvious that it will at some stage collapse, like many before us we may fall into the realms of myth and be spoken of only through stories. Like many others however we have the chance to leave our footprint behind a monument to all that we have accomplished good and bad. what legacy will we leave behind

Founds Objects

This is one object that

I will be combing with

photographs to make

a piece of work about

Leybourne Grange

Leybourne Grange

These two images are apart of a series of photographs that I will be combining with found objects to create a piece of work about Leybourne grange, rather than looking into the places history and use I wish to look at it in relation to my interests around decay, humanity and nature.

Abandoned House

This photograph was Taken in lower Rainham of an old Abandoned house in an orchard.
It was taken at 9:30 in the evening for 30 seconds at f9, a torch was used to paint the house with light making it visible in the photograph. Unfortunately a high ISO was used to allow for a smaller aperture this has resulted in the photo being somewhat grainy apart from this however I feel this is still an interesting photograph.

The Saw Mill

This image is the beginnings of a piece of work for an abandoned saw mill in Hastings. when complete there will be four photos one in each slot.

The frame that the photos are set in was taken from the Saw mill and the photos are of it, This piece aims to create an object that conveys the on going aesthetic within my work and also hints to the themes that interest me.

The foot print of man on the land:

"my touch is the most recent layer of many layers that are embedded in the landscape which in turn will be covered by future layers - hidden but always present" Andy Goldsworthy

Looking at this through the lens of humanity, it could be said that he current global civilisation will eventually become another layer like every previous civilisation that has graced the earth.We are fuelling the inevitability of time, the decay and waste of our living is easily found, The transition from one layer to another is all around us. Using photography I look to find such transition in the land, not simply to record such moments in an effort to stop them, but in hope that the collapse will happen, for through the collapse we will learn the lessons that need to be learned.

Mill

The photograph above is from two that I have manipulated and put together.
The pictures are from an old and abandoned saw mill, they show how nature has started to take back the land that the mill sits on.

Tyres

A small stream runs off a lake in Hastings, A quiet place seemingly bereft of human activity, however on closer inspection, the foot print of man is littered across this idyllic place.

In this photograph I look to emulate the commercial ideal of the natural scene, that of water flowing down a river or stream. beneath this aesthetic however lies the true subject of the photograph which is the disregard humanity has for nature.

Doorway

Where does the line between fine are photography and documentary photography lie, This photo does not have any deeper thoughts behind it for me other than what a beautiful door in such a decayed place, of course I have manipulated this in the way that I manipulated my other photos however this is simply a record of my interests. the line seems to be slight and something that is causing me a deal of confusion. Maybe behind the door is the answer

The man made frame

The frame is the object to remove a picture from its surroundings, reality, the real world and the constructed world. The decayed frame of humanity looks through onto the natural world that we are so disconnected from. we need to destroy the frame that humanity has created between itself and nature.

Decay

The beauty of decay lies in the promise of the end.

living in the shadow

This photograph was taken on a recent holiday, the contrast between the human settlement and the mountains behind sums up the way humans live in this place, in the shadow of nature.

whilst visiting this place we were told tales of human loss in the mountains and the efforts that people have gone to to inforce settlements in the atlas mountains; Carving roads through the range in an attempt to keep all connected and safe from the power of nature.

the visit highlighted my interest in the relationships that humanity holds with nature, and although these people are very much intune with there surroundings there is also a great tension.

Time

This is a series of photographs that I took during a holiday in Dorset in 2009.

Monuments

As our Civilisation progresses it seems increasingly obvious that it will at some stage collapse, like many before us we may fall into the realms of myth and be spoken of only through stories. Like many others however we have the chance to leave our footprint behind a monument to all that we have accomplished good and bad. what legacy will we leave behind

Powerstations

these nine images are the starting point for the idea that I have been exploring, they have currently been left in colour, grayscale and antique lighting. I feel the later best explores the ideas of the idolised so I will be looking to further this type of photograph.

So it was windy then?

It was nice and cloudy earlier however rather windy, these are the photographs that I managed to get before the whole thing snapped in half. Photos have been photoshoped to add vignettes/ graduated filters.