Urban Photographs

I find pictures in the built environment much as I find them anywhere else. Sometimes it is the relationship between a wall and a patch of blue sky, the shape of an old house, or a street lamp caught at a particular moment in the evening.

The human presence is not always visible, but it is often there.

Buildings age. Paint fades. Objects acquire histories. A fence divides one shape from another. Artificial and natural light meet. Something quite ordinary becomes worth looking at because of where I am standing and what the light is doing at that moment.

Not every photograph here belongs to the centre of a city. Some were found around suburbs, waterfronts and smaller inhabited places. What connects them is the evidence of people shaping a place—and the unexpected pictures that appear within it.

As with much of my work, I am looking for intersections: light and shadow, lines and shapes, structure and chance, the natural world and the things we build within it.

Sometimes there is a person in the picture. Sometimes the picture is what they have left behind.