While roaming countryside in the UK and abroad, I developed a desire to understand why I feel inexplicably drawn to some landscapes and not to others. Trying to answer this question has taken me out of a commercial career in travel photography and into a creative practice exploring Environmental Evolution, Soundscape Ecology, and now, how changing landscape use affects our current psychological well-being as Pleistocene animals living in the Anthropocene. How might we regain a more meaningful relationship with our surroundings in the future?
My research based creative practice includes exploring whether I can find ways of representing the landscape, using still photography, in ways that are more in tune with how we experience landscapes in the field. Is it possible to bring some of that immersive experience into the gallery space?
Please note that the accompanying 3 minute soundscapes for each image are available on my website.
