Current project.

Below is a work in progress exhibition I put up this Spring and the zine that accompanied it.

Landing is a research project that presents an expanded conversation on the rural landscape and our relationship to it. Documenting walks and climbs in the North of England, the project actively engages with the history and complexities of the landscape, aspiring to know the land better. The work on display, from this larger series, explores the area of Malham, North Yorkshire, through a walk with the UCLan Mountaineering Club.  

The project aims to develop a deeper connection to the land, provoking a more urgent sense of responsibility to care for and engage with it. Additionally, the series intends to challenge traditional notions of landscape photography and its problems, which often show a static, colonial viewpoint of grand or picturesque landscapes. These representations can create and reinforce distance between people and the land that we are innately connected to and part of. Landing’s experimental approach works to convey the dynamic, intersectional and haptic layers within the environment and our connection to it, creating a more engaged discussion, moving away from landscape to the land itself.