LOST America

Several years ago I became inspired by the great large format colour photographers of the sixties, seventies and on wards. So began my own search for a melancholic landscape presented in meticulous detail. To come as close to that format as possible, I shoot with a Technical Camera and Digital Back.

I have always been captivated by the American landscape. I grew up on a diet of American culture from the seventies onwards. But instead of the white picket fence American dream, I've always been drawn to its more sombre side.

Over the past few decades, the country has witnessed industrial redundancy, economic crisis, natural disasters, terrorism and paranoia. The result of which can be interpreted in a static and multifarious landscape. Towns become a worn-out reminder of when America was building itself a brighter future. These places appear frozen in time, their inhabitants sparse or long since departed.

My work examines a quiet stillness in a landscape long forgotten; in a sense 'on-pause'. The backwater sticks and quiet city corners mirroring a vast, lonely wilderness; a detailed, melancholic, alluring and yet unremarkable landscape.