From the archives
This series begins with images from my time as a fine art and documentary photography student in Newport, South Wales, in the early 1980’s. I found inspiration in the everyday urban landscape; children’s playing apparatus I found in Newport’s parks and other more unusual settings, the structures and parking areas of the M4 motorway and the post industrial landscape of Newport’s docklands. There then follows some from a series I made, based on a telecommunications tower, incongruously set in the Cotswold landscape. The photographs ranged from up close, to a spec on the horizon. In the mid to late 80’s I began looking at the less glamorous architecture that caught my attention in Bristol, which included old cinemas, social housing and warehousing. During this period of time, I decided to shoot a series based specifically on parked cars. It was my first project in colour. At the time I was unable to make prints myself, and not having this control meant most just remained in their un-printed negative form. Now I’m able to scan and digitise them.
Windmill Hill, Bristol 1986
Toyota car showroom 1985
M4 motorway service station. Aust. 1982.
M4 motorway service station. Aust. 1982.
Transporter Bridge over the river Usk, Newport. 1983.
Newport Docks, South Wales. 1983.
Horse and garage doors. Newport, South Wales. 1981.
Park, Newport, South Wales. 1981.
A lonely horse on the banks of the River Usk. 1981.
An abandoned warehouse, Newport Docks, South Wales. 1983.
Telecommunication tower, Ozzleworth, Gloucestershire. 1985.
Telecommunication tower, Ozzleworth, Gloucestershire. 1985.
Burning the stubble and the telecommunication tower, Ozzleworth, Gloucestershire. 1985.
From a series showing Bristol's old cinema buildings being re-purposed, Kingswood, Bristol, 1987.
Bristol alternative architecture series. Southville. 1987.
Victorian gothic. Bristol alternative architecture series. Gas Lane. 1989.
Bristol alternative architecture series. Tobacco factory, Bedminster. 1987.
Bonded warehouse. Bristol alternative architecture series. Spike Island. 1989.
Floating Capri. From a series based on cars, 1986
Scrapyard pile-up. 1986
When Panda's weren't nearing extinction. Portbury Docks, 1986
From a series based on cars, Bristol, 1985
Newport, Pembrokeshire 1987
Scrapyard, Gloucestershire 1986
From a series of night time images of Bristol, inspired by cinematic genre of "film noir". 2002.
