Evergreen (2021)

Evergreen, is an on-going portfolio of medium format photographs depicting a present day look at Great Britain’s Post War Tower Blocks and the greenery that surrounds them. Studying how the different communities that live within these buildings view the spaces between, whether they still serve as pockets of health and wellbeing or are merely patches of foliage. Evergreen explores the idea of ‘The Garden City’, a method of urban planning which saw self-contained communities surrounded by "green-belts" on a smaller scale. These photographs highlight the ‘building boom’ of the 40s to 70s and how Modernist architects like Le Corbusier influenced their design. The project’s title refers to plants that’s foliage has remained green for multiple growing seasons. The notion being that the buildings and their greenery have lasted longer than originally intended.