Submission

Within the fabric of populous urban environments there persist abandoned places which exist tenuously as inconvenient symbols of an earlier time, and which prompt complex questions concerning design, intention, social motivation and waste. These silent architectural icons are bestrewn with the uncertainties of the past, effectively deconstructing the man-made environment as a place of emotional permanence. My images are formally linked by the many visual elements and textures of broken structure and interiors, but ultimately this work is more explicitly concerned with the intersection of place memory and social context. Working exclusively with medium and large format film, my portfolios embrace an attempt to fuse an aesthetic form with a social idea as a way of interpreting the past, photographically captured in the warm palette of decay.